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A new framework for assessing whether breastfeeding interventions are ethical and socially appropriate is now available.
Built by ethics experts from the University of Zurich, it can help answer important questions, like: How can an infant’s rights be protected? How can a mother’s dignity be safeguarded?
This Public Health Ethics Framework is part of a larger resource that was created to assess ethics in breastfeeding. It’s called EFBRI – An Evolving Ethical Framework Informing Breastfeeding Research and Interventions, and it is freely accessible on LactaHub.
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More about EFBRI – An Evolving Ethical Framework Informing Breastfeeding Research and Interventions
EFBRI is a framework of established ethics standards and principles created to guide biomedical research and public health interventions involving breastfeeding.
EFBRI Part I is a Research Ethics Framework that synthesizes rules, standards and guidelines from major international and national research ethics documents. It streamlines them into 13 guiding principles that are directly relevant to breastfeeding and lactation research. A separate, consolidated checklist of the general components required for adherence to these principles is included.
EFBRI Part II is a Public Health Ethics Framework that synthesizes rules, standards and guidelines from major international and national research and public health ethics documents. It streamlines them into 9 guiding principles and recommendations that are directly relevant to breastfeeding and lactation interventions.
Together, EFBRI Parts I and II can help safeguard human rights and dignity in efforts to achieve equity in breastfeeding and improve breastfeeding practices and maternal and infant health. Both are freely and exclusively available on the LactaHub breastfeeding knowledge platform – a partnership project of The Global Health Network and FLRF.
EFBRI was built through an academic consensus process and validated using experts’ opinions through the Delphi method. The resulting Framework, intended for researchers, reviewers and funders, is a synthesis of relevant Swiss and international norms related to breastfeeding and lactation research. The Framework will be refined and evolved as necessary based on periodic reviews and comments received.
Photo 1: Cover, EFBRI – An Evolving Ethical Framework Informing Breastfeeding Research and Interventions, Part II: Public Health Ethics Framework. ©Nadja Stadelman, FRANCHI design.identity.
Photo 2: Nikola Biller-Andorno, Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil., Director, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (IBME), University of Zurich. ©Universität Zürich, Frank Brüderli.
Photo 3: University of Zurich. ©Universität Zürich, Frank Brüderli.
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Photo 5: UB Law, Calatrava University Library Zurich ©Universität Zürich, Stefan Walter.