Newborn care practices in low socioeconomic settlements of Karachi, Pakistan

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 911-921

  Fikree, Fariyal F ^a   Ali, Tazeen S ^b   Durocher, Jill M ^c   Rahbar, Mohammad Hossein ^d  

^a Higher Population Council   (Jordan)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Colostrum; Newborn care; Pakistan; Practices; Prelacteals

Indexed keywords

ALLYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; LAXATIVE;

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; INFANT FEEDING; LOW INCOME POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BATH; BONE STRENGTH; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; COLIC; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; DELIVERY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME DELIVERY; HONEY; HUMAN; INFANT FEEDING; INTERVIEW; MASSAGE; MOTHER; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAKISTAN; PREDICTION; PRENATAL CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; BATHS; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MASSAGE; PAKISTAN; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; URBAN POPULATION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; KARACHI; PAKISTAN; SIND; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 10044221670     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.06.034     Document Type: Article

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