Strategies to promote breast-feeding among adolescent mothers

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 152, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 862-869

  Wiemann, Constance M ^a,b   DuBois, Jacqueline C ^a   Berenson, Abbey B ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0031667352     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.152.9.862     Document Type: Article

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