Health interprofessional collaborative practice in exclusive breastfeeding: a scoping review

Abstract

The World Health Organization reports the low coverage of exclusive breastfeeding. The need for support from all health professionals in an effort to increase the coverage of exclusive breastfeeding is important to conduct collaborative practices of interprofessional health. The purpose of this scoping review is to analyze the health interprofessional collaborative practice in exclusive breastfeeding. This scoping review used the Arksey and O'Malley framework. Search for articles published from 2009 to 2019 from 5 databases (PubMed, Wiley, Sciencedirect, EBSCO, and google scholar). Data were reviewed using the PRISMA flowchart. The results of the review found the role of health professionals and health interprofessional barriers in exclusive breastfeeding.