Breast-feeding and the working mother in Nairobi

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 715-718

  Lakati, Alice ^a   Binns, Colin ^b   Stevenson, Mark ^b  

^a Kenya Medical Training College Nairobi   (Kenya)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; Kenya; Nairobi; Working mothers

Indexed keywords

BREAST FEEDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KENYA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORK RESUMPTION;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS; KENYA; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 0036937192     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2002349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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