Breast is best for GPs - Or is it? Breastfeeding attitudes and practice of general practitioners in the Mid-West of Ireland

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 268-270

  Finneran, Bernadette ^a,b   Murphy, L ^a  

^a GP   (Ireland)

^b NONE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST ABSCESS; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IRELAND; MALE; MASTITIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NIPPLE MALFORMATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELEPHONE; WEIGHT GAIN; AGED; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MIDDLE AGED; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BREAST FEEDING; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 16544382707     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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