ALPP CLC Exam Questions and Answers
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breast feeding: a public health priority - Correct Answers
✅has been recognized as a public health priority in tropical
climates since the 1930's, but not until the 1990's in the US
costs to prevent needless deaths - Correct Answers ✅less
than $6 billion/year worldwide
suboptimal breastfeeding - Correct Answers ✅accounts for
more than 3,340 maternal and child deaths a year, 80% are
maternal
nursing a baby for a year or more - Correct Answers
✅decreases by 10-15% the risk of developing hypertension,
diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and cardiovascular disease
women who do not breastfeed - Correct Answers ✅are at
greater risk for myocardial infarction and aspects of
metabolic syndrome; are at a greater risk of breast,
endometrial, and ovarian cancer
WHO and UNICEF three strategies - Correct Answers ✅for
increased breastfeeding initiation and duration in every
country: promotion, protection, and support
breastfeeding promotion - Correct Answers ✅focuses on
advantages of breastfeeding on a personal, community,
country, or global level
,ALPP CLC Exam Questions and Answers
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breastfeeding protection - Correct Answers ✅focuses on
government, manufacturer, and social responsibility to assure
breastfeeding's ability to compete with commercial interests;
includes addressing improper marketing practices; the AAP
advices not to provide formula, company gift bags, and
industry-authored handouts; in the US, state and local
breastfeeding legislation addresses breastfeeding in public,
employment issues, jury duty, family law, mothers in prison,
etc.
breastfeeding support - Correct Answers ✅focuses on the
interaction of "helpers" with family as well as program
development and implementation
community expertise - Correct Answers ✅variety of
community expertise is needed to promote, protect, and
support breastfeeding
International models - Correct Answers ✅for integrating
breastfeeding promotion, protection, and support as well as
balancing technical information, programs, and protocols
CLC - Correct Answers ✅nationally recognized designation
awarded by the ALPP to those who are exam eligible and pass
the exam; have competenct verified
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CLCs and IBCLCs - Correct Answers ✅health professionals
who provide lactation support
why is breastfeeding so difficult? - Correct Answers ✅1.
unrealistic expectations
2. lack of timely interventions
unrealistic expectations - Correct Answers ✅lack of
preparation for what the newborn period would look like
lack of timely interventions - Correct Answers ✅mother's
problems at 3 to 7 days posed as the greatest risk to
stopping
breastfeeding trends - Correct Answers ✅last 150 years or
som rates have declined
international code of matketing of breastmilk substitutes (the
code) - Correct Answers ✅an international health policy
framework to regulate the marketing of breastmilk
substitutes in order to protect breastfeeding
- published by the WHO in 1981
- internationally agreed voluntary code of practice
- written in response to the marketing activities of the infant
feeding indurstry which were promoting formula feeding over
, ALPP CLC Exam Questions and Answers
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breastfeeding, which in turn was leading to dramatic
increases in maternal and infant morbidity and mortality
- subsequent clarifying and extending resolutions have been
passed by the world health assembly
the code - Correct Answers ✅regulates the marketing of
breastmilk substitutes which includes infant formulas, follow-
on formulas, and any other food or drink, together with
feeding bottles and teats, intended for babies and young
children; sets standards for the labeling and quality of
products and for how the law should be implemented and
monitored within countries
restricting marketing - Correct Answers ✅does not mean
that the products cannot be made available, neither does it
restrict parents choice; it simply aims to make sure that their
choices are made based on full, impartial information, rather
than misleading, inaccurate, or biased marketing claims
the strategy - Correct Answers ✅is intended as a guide for
action
- it identifies interventions with a proven positive impact
- it emphasizes providing mothers and families the support
they need to carry out their crucial roles
- it explicitly defines the obligations and responsibilities in
this regard of governments, international organizations, and
other concerned parties
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breast feeding: a public health priority - Correct Answers
✅has been recognized as a public health priority in tropical
climates since the 1930's, but not until the 1990's in the US
costs to prevent needless deaths - Correct Answers ✅less
than $6 billion/year worldwide
suboptimal breastfeeding - Correct Answers ✅accounts for
more than 3,340 maternal and child deaths a year, 80% are
maternal
nursing a baby for a year or more - Correct Answers
✅decreases by 10-15% the risk of developing hypertension,
diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and cardiovascular disease
women who do not breastfeed - Correct Answers ✅are at
greater risk for myocardial infarction and aspects of
metabolic syndrome; are at a greater risk of breast,
endometrial, and ovarian cancer
WHO and UNICEF three strategies - Correct Answers ✅for
increased breastfeeding initiation and duration in every
country: promotion, protection, and support
breastfeeding promotion - Correct Answers ✅focuses on
advantages of breastfeeding on a personal, community,
country, or global level
,ALPP CLC Exam Questions and Answers
(Solved Papers)
breastfeeding protection - Correct Answers ✅focuses on
government, manufacturer, and social responsibility to assure
breastfeeding's ability to compete with commercial interests;
includes addressing improper marketing practices; the AAP
advices not to provide formula, company gift bags, and
industry-authored handouts; in the US, state and local
breastfeeding legislation addresses breastfeeding in public,
employment issues, jury duty, family law, mothers in prison,
etc.
breastfeeding support - Correct Answers ✅focuses on the
interaction of "helpers" with family as well as program
development and implementation
community expertise - Correct Answers ✅variety of
community expertise is needed to promote, protect, and
support breastfeeding
International models - Correct Answers ✅for integrating
breastfeeding promotion, protection, and support as well as
balancing technical information, programs, and protocols
CLC - Correct Answers ✅nationally recognized designation
awarded by the ALPP to those who are exam eligible and pass
the exam; have competenct verified
,ALPP CLC Exam Questions and Answers
(Solved Papers)
CLCs and IBCLCs - Correct Answers ✅health professionals
who provide lactation support
why is breastfeeding so difficult? - Correct Answers ✅1.
unrealistic expectations
2. lack of timely interventions
unrealistic expectations - Correct Answers ✅lack of
preparation for what the newborn period would look like
lack of timely interventions - Correct Answers ✅mother's
problems at 3 to 7 days posed as the greatest risk to
stopping
breastfeeding trends - Correct Answers ✅last 150 years or
som rates have declined
international code of matketing of breastmilk substitutes (the
code) - Correct Answers ✅an international health policy
framework to regulate the marketing of breastmilk
substitutes in order to protect breastfeeding
- published by the WHO in 1981
- internationally agreed voluntary code of practice
- written in response to the marketing activities of the infant
feeding indurstry which were promoting formula feeding over
, ALPP CLC Exam Questions and Answers
(Solved Papers)
breastfeeding, which in turn was leading to dramatic
increases in maternal and infant morbidity and mortality
- subsequent clarifying and extending resolutions have been
passed by the world health assembly
the code - Correct Answers ✅regulates the marketing of
breastmilk substitutes which includes infant formulas, follow-
on formulas, and any other food or drink, together with
feeding bottles and teats, intended for babies and young
children; sets standards for the labeling and quality of
products and for how the law should be implemented and
monitored within countries
restricting marketing - Correct Answers ✅does not mean
that the products cannot be made available, neither does it
restrict parents choice; it simply aims to make sure that their
choices are made based on full, impartial information, rather
than misleading, inaccurate, or biased marketing claims
the strategy - Correct Answers ✅is intended as a guide for
action
- it identifies interventions with a proven positive impact
- it emphasizes providing mothers and families the support
they need to carry out their crucial roles
- it explicitly defines the obligations and responsibilities in
this regard of governments, international organizations, and
other concerned parties
