Alimentação e nutrição na primeira infância: representação das recomendações do governo brasileiro
International Journal of Development Research
Alimentação e nutrição na primeira infância: representação das recomendações do governo brasileiro
Received 14th July, 2020; Received in revised form 11th August, 2020; Accepted 26th September, 2020; Published online 24th October, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Vanusa Maria Gomes Napoleão Silva et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: to analyze, througt official documents from the Brazilian government, recommendations on food and nutrition in early childhood. Method: study of social representations. The descriptor “complementary feeding”, without a temporal cut. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyzes flowchart model was adopted to demonstrate the search, identification, screening, eligibility and data inclusion process. The open software IRAMUTEQ and the Social Representation Theory assumptions were used to analyze the quantitative and qualitative data, respectively. Results: 142 documents related to food were found and used 09. After software analysis, 4 classes were generated according to the interrelationship between terms and expressions: government guidelines, children's rights, early childhood needs and principles of food safety. Conclusion: it is concluded that the documented Brazilian policies regarding infant feeding reinforce the role of the State as a guarantor of rights and health promotion, but need more supervision to be properly implemented and incorporated into the daily life of the population.