ACTIVITY 1.2.3.2
· When I reflect back on my opinion on the public health sector I don’t think that my opinion has changed much because I was speaking from a point of view of someone who made use of the services that the public health sector offers.
· Most of the time people are looking for information to agree with whatever belief that they have and not be challenged therefore only stories of anything unsuccessful will garner more attention.
· Positive story of the public health sector: https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-022-07777-x
ACTIVITY 1.2.3.3
· However, despite the scientific evidence and need, this form of breastfeeding is not being carried out across the whole of South Africa.
Answer the following questions:
1. What do you think prevents this from the side of:
• the state
• schools and institutions
• commercial employers
• retail and leisure spaces
A: The state doesn’t ensure that there is enough food or clean drinking water for most communities. Schools and institutions need to educate woman on the importance of breastfeeding in order to counter act the lie that breastfeeding is not important. Commercial employees should allow woman to stay home for at least the first six months of their babies being born instead of having them return form work, or they can have them work from home.
2. How do these cultural and social prejudices and bias work against breastfeeding?
• The view of women’s bodies as polluted or embarrassing or dangerous?
• Cultural stigma around women and their bodies?
• The sexualisation of women as mothers and their breasts?
• Women’s power or lack thereof in religious entities?
• Issues of fashion and body norms for women and social pressure to conform?
A: Women are made to feel ashamed of what they can’t control and occurs naturally, breastfeeding. Women can’t breastfeed their children in public without being because it is seen as immoral, or they are sexualized. Clothes that women are required to wear may make it difficult to breastfeed their children in any place. Breastfeeding then gets a negative representation making women less inclined to do it and therefore the babies, who aren’t though of at all, suffer the consequences. that might be the reason that people are unwilling to change their way of thinking, because they aren’t the one that have to carry the consequences it’s the babies.
3. What kind of resource allocation would be needed to make breastfeeding – along public health guidelines – a reality? Are we ready to commit to this as a society What does it say about the position and power of women as mothers that we have failed to uphold our health policies and our laws?
A: Areas should be built in public where women can go to breastfeed, and the public should be educated on its importance. But as a society we are not ready for that to be a reality because we don’t see the flaw in our beliefs
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