The Forty-Day Rest Period and Infant Feeding Practices Among Negev Bedouin Arab Women in Israel

Medical Anthropology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 207-216

  Forman, Michele R ^a   Hundt, Gillian L ^a   Towne, D ^a   Graubard, B ^a   Sullivan, Barbara ^a   Berendes, Heinz W ^a   Sarov, Batia ^a   Naggan, Lechaim ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; ASIA; BABY FOOD; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FEMALE; FRIENDS AND RELATIVES; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFANT NUTRITION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES; METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; NEWBORN; NOMADS--WOMEN; NUTRITION; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POSTPARTUM WOMEN; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; RELIGION; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIOLOGY; WESTERN ASIA;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ASIA; BREAST FEEDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FRIENDS AND RELATIVES; HEALTH; INFANT NUTRITION; INTERVIEWS; ISLAM; ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES; METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; NOMADS--WOMEN; NUTRITION; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POSTPARTUM WOMEN; PUERPERIUM; RELIGION; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL SCIENCES; WESTERN ASIA;

BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISLAM; ISRAEL; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM;

EID: 0025394236     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.1990.9966022     Document Type: Article

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