Feeding practices and growth among low-income Peruvian infants: A comparison of internationally-recommended definitions

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 103-114

  Piwoz, Ellen G ^a   De Kanashiro, Hilary Creed ^b   De Romaña, Guillermo Lopez ^b   Black, Robert E ^a   Brown, Kenneth H ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN NUTRICIONAL   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant feeding practices; Infant growth; Nutrition assessment; Nutrition surveys

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; BIOLOGY; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; GROWTH; HEALTH; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; LATIN AMERICA; LOW INCOME POPULATION; NUTRITION; NUTRITION INDEXES; PERU; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; RESEARCH REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SOUTH AMERICA; YOUTH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GROWTH; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PERU; POVERTY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

ANTHROPOMETRIC DATA; BREASTFEEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INFANT FEEDING; NUTRITIONAL SURVEILLANCE;

PERU;

EID: 0029668709     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/25.1.103     Document Type: Article

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