Hospital Breastfeeding Policies in the Philadelphia Area: A Comparison with the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding

Birth

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-48

  Kovach, Andrea Crivelli ^a,b,c  

^a BEAVER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Health Choices Unlimited   (United States)

^c Health Choices   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; NEWBORN; POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PHILADELPHIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0031086766     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536x.1997.tb00335.x     Document Type: Article

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