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Health Plans' Innovative Programs in Breastfeeding Promotion

This publication is also available for download in PDF format from the American Association of Health Plans (AAHP) web site: http://www.aahp.org/

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• A Message from the Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service
• Executive Summary
• Study Methodology and Findings
• Overview: Focus on Breastfeeding
• Case Study I-Health Net, Inc: Strategic Action Plan for the Promotion of Breastfeeding
• Case Study II-HealthPartners: Breastfeeding & Parent Support Center
• Case Study III-Independent Health: Prenatal Case Management
• Case Study IV-Kaiser Health Plan of Georgia: The Maternal/Child Health Lactation Program
• Case Study V-Kaiser Permanente Northwest: The Mother-Baby Program
• Case Study VI-Kaiser Permanente Southern California: Lactation Promotion
• Case Study VII-Keystone Health Plan East: Baby BluePrints/Baby FootSteps
• Case Study VIII-UCare Minnesota: Breastfeeding Promotion Program
• Health Plans, as Employers, Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers Who Return to Work
• References
• Appendix A: AAHP's Women's Health Subcommittee
• Appendix B: Breastfeeding Monograph Review Committee

Authors:

American Association of Health Plans
http://www.aahp.org/

Carmella Bocchino, RN, MBA
Najm Hodge-Bethea
Barbara Lardy, MPH
Susan Messina, MSS, MLSP
Juli Pencek

Office of Women's Health, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.4woman.gov/owh/

Suzanne G. Haynes, PhD
Ekaterini K. Malliou, MPH

Survey Results & Case Studies

This report was supported by a contract (00T002138) from the Office on Women's Health of the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Project Officer: Suzanne G. Haynes, PhD
Assistant Project Officer: Ekaterini Malliou, MPH

Last Updated: July, 2001

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