Integrating quantitative and quantitative methods to model infant feeding behavior among Navajo mothers

Human Organization

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 183-192

  Bauer, Mark C ^a   Wright, Anne L ^b  

^a Dine College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision models; Infant feeding; Methods; Native Americans; US

Indexed keywords

BREASTFEEDING; DECISION MAKING; INFANT FEEDING; MODELLING APPROACH; NAVAJO PEOPLE;

USA;

EID: 0029907017     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.55.2.p55g316v70572732     Document Type: Article

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