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DE Promotion of breastfeeding. Server, Canfali Marina Alta. Comic strip, Spain 1997
Leading by example. Breastfeeding photographic competition. Paediatric Department, Hospital Marina Alta. Canfali. Denia.
Dimensions: 297 x 210 mm
This news appeared in the local weekly Canfali Marina Alta. The caricature is by Dr. Javier Server, gynaecologist, and shows the director at the time, Dr. Ernesto Armañanzas, making Dr. José María Paricio Talayero and Dr. Luis Santos Serrano, paediatricians from the service organising the photographic competition, lead by example.
In 1997, the first Photo Contest "Breastfeeding Marina Alta", competition conceived in 1996 by Dr. José María Paricio Talayero, Head of the Paediatrics Service of the Marina Alta hospital, as a means of socially normalising the image of women breastfeeding. The aim of this competition is to promotion of breastfeeding through the cultural revival of the image of breastfeeding and the breastfeedingThis has been censored especially in the West and causes problems for breastfeeding on demand, as women feel the ambiguity of the gaze when breastfeeding in public.
The weekly Canfali Marina AltaThe Spanish Breastfeeding Association, directed by Don Francisco Serradell, embraced the idea from the very first moment, publishing photos of breastfeeding, giving informative coverage to the awards ceremony and sponsoring one of them.
The Nodrissa GroupThe breastfeeding support group, chaired by Laura Pacheco Torrijo, nurse at the Hospital Marina Alta Denia, then hospital in Denia (Alicante, Spain), maintains and organises the competition annually. Editions have been held without interruption since 1997.
The Marina Alta Hospital in Denia was accredited by the IHAN of WHO-UNICEF from 1999 until its closure in 2009 as a Baby Friendly Hospital.
This news appeared in the local weekly Canfali Marina Alta. The caricature is by Dr. Javier Server, gynaecologist, and shows the director at the time, Dr. Ernesto Armañanzas, making Dr. José María Paricio Talayero and Dr. Luis Santos Serrano, paediatricians from the service organising the photographic competition, lead by example.
In 1997, the first Photo Contest "Breastfeeding Marina Alta", competition conceived in 1996 by Dr. José María Paricio Talayero, Head of the Paediatrics Service of the Marina Alta hospital, as a means of socially normalising the image of women breastfeeding. The aim of this competition is to promotion of breastfeeding through the cultural revival of the image of breastfeeding and the breastfeedingThis has been censored especially in the West and causes problems for breastfeeding on demand, as women feel the ambiguity of the gaze when breastfeeding in public.
The weekly Canfali Marina AltaThe Spanish Breastfeeding Association, directed by Don Francisco Serradell, embraced the idea from the very first moment, publishing photos of breastfeeding, giving informative coverage to the awards ceremony and sponsoring one of them.
The Nodrissa GroupThe breastfeeding support group, chaired by Laura Pacheco Torrijo, nurse at the Hospital Marina Alta Denia, then hospital in Denia (Alicante, Spain), maintains and organises the competition annually. Editions have been held without interruption since 1997.
The Marina Alta Hospital in Denia was accredited by the IHAN of WHO-UNICEF from 1999 until its closure in 2009 as a Baby Friendly Hospital.