Culturally appropriate nutrition education improves infant feeding and growth in rural Sichuan, China

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1204-1211

  Guldan, Georgia S ^a   Fan, Heng Chun ^b   Ma, Xiao ^b   Ni, Zong Zan ^b   Xiang, Xia ^c   Tang, Ming Zhen ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Pengshan Co Matern Child Hlth H   (China)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; China; Complementary foods; Infant feeding; Infant growth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD HEALTH; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; INFANT NUTRITION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RURAL AREA;

EID: 0034055990     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/130.5.1204     Document Type: Article

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