Socio-demographic correlates of breast-feeding in urban slums of Chandigarh

Indian Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 461-466

  Kumar, Dinesh ^a   Agarwal, Neeraj ^a   Swami, H M ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Breast feeding behavior; Colostrum feeding; Prelacteal feed

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CHI SQUARE TEST; COLOSTRUM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT FEEDING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARITY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

EID: 33750924292     PISSN: 00195359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5359.27973     Document Type: Article

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