Barriers to breastfeeding among African American adolescent mothers

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 669-673

  Brownell, Kim ^a,b   Hutton, Laurencia ^c   Hartman, Jacqueline ^d   Dabrow, Sharon ^e  

^a Northern Navajo Medical Center   (United States)

^b Johnnie Ruth Clarke Health Center   (United States)

^c Pinellas County Health Department   (United States)

^d Pediatric Health Care Alliance   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036850580     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992280204100905     Document Type: Article

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