TY - JOUR AU - Zakarija-Grković, Irena AU - Cattaneo, Adriano AU - Bettinelli, Maria Enrica AU - Pilato, Claudia AU - Vassallo, Charlene AU - Borg Buontempo, Mariella AU - Gray, Helen AU - Meynell, Clare AU - Wise, Patricia AU - Harutyunyan, Susanna AU - Rosin, Stefanie AU - Hemmelmayr, Andrea AU - Šniukaitė-Adner, Daiva AU - Arendt, Maryse AU - Gupta, Arun PY - 2020 DA - 2020/06/04 TI - Are our babies off to a healthy start? The state of implementation of the Global strategy for infant and young child feeding in Europe JO - International Breastfeeding Journal SP - 51 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - To protect children’s right to optimal nutrition, WHO/UNICEF developed a Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, endorsed by all 53 WHO/EURO Member States. The World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) is a tool for monitoring implementation of the Global Strategy. It comprises 15 indicators, ten referring to policies and programmes, and five to feeding practices. Each is scored on a scale of 10, giving a total score of 150 for Global Strategy implementation. To date, 18 WHO/EURO Member States – Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine and United Kingdom – have conducted a WBTi assessment and produced a report. SN - 1746-4358 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13006-020-00282-z DO - 10.1186/s13006-020-00282-z ID - Zakarija-Grković2020 ER -