Monitoring the marketing of infant formula feeds

British Medical Journal

Volumn 326, Issue 7381, 2003, Pages 113-114

  Waterston, Tony ^a   Tumwine, James ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MILK; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; EDITORIAL; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MARKETING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0037452144     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.113     Document Type: Editorial

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