Action 19Develop a national monitoring system to improve the tracking of breastfeeding rates as well as the policies and environmental factors that affect breastfeeding

Implementation StrategiesPotential Actors
 Enhance the CDC Breastfeeding Report Card by including a broader array of process indicators and showing trends over time.HHS/CDC†
 Collect data in all states on the initiation of breastfeeding and in-hospital supplementation with formula through the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth.State governments
 Develop systems to collect key information on policy and environmental supports for breastfeeding.HHS/CDC
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HHS/CDC = U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From: Appendix 1, Actions to Improve Breastfeeding

Cover of The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding
The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding.
Office of the Surgeon General (US); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US); Office on Women's Health (US).
Rockville (MD): Office of the Surgeon General (US); 2011.
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