Effect of community-based promotion of exclusive breastfeeding on diarrhoeal illness and growth: A cluster randomised controlled trial

Lancet

Volumn 361, Issue 9367, 2003, Pages 1418-1423

  Bhandari, Nita ^a   Bahl, Rajiv ^a   Mazumdar, Sarmila ^a   Martines, Jose ^b   Black, Robert E ^c   Bhan, Maharaj K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PARENT COUNSELING; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ADULT; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; INDIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 0037467504     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)13134-0     Document Type: Article

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