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Human milk is the first and best feeding option for the first six months of life or more, because it contains all the nutrients, bioactive compounds, immunological factors and microbiome needed for proper child development and growth. Prevalence of early weaning are recorded by International Organizations and highlight only 40% of children are exclusively breastfed for 6 months in the world. This entails a major public health problem with huge social and economic implications.The special edition Breastfeeding: Impact on human health aims to promote breastfeeding.

This is a high-quality multidisciplinary covering all aspects of breastfeeding, as composition of human milk, social and economic impact, models of breastfeeding protection and promotion interventions, short and long term consequences for mother and child health and past and current determinants of breastfeeding management.