Human Lactation in the Anthropocene: a Post-pandemic Emergency
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https://doi.org/10.37467/gkarevmedica.v9.3125Keywords:
Breast feeding, Mothers, Coronavirus infections, Feminism, Public healthAbstract
Human lactation was declared a human right by the UN Human Rights Council in 2016, due to its universal condition, and it is defined as one of the social investments with highest cost-benefit ratio, according to the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Despite all this, its holistic approach as a hypercomplex phenomenon within the framework of human development remains dramatically absent, urgency that has been increased by the syndemic crisis in the cosmological context of the Anthropocene.
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