The association of infant feeding with parent-reported infections and hospitalisations in the West Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 207-215

  Oddy, Wendy H ^a,b   Kickett Tucker, Cheryl ^a   De Maio, John ^a   Lawrence, David ^b   Cox, Adele ^a   Silburn, Sven R ^a,b   Stanley, Fiona J ^a   Zubrick, Stephen R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian Aborigines; Breastfeeding; Children; Hospitalisation; Infants; Infection

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; BREAST FEEDING; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILD WELFARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COUGHING; CROUP; EAR INFECTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; OTITIS MEDIA; PERTUSSIS; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; TONSILLITIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; WHEEZING;

ADOLESCENT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 47249111679     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2008.00218.x     Document Type: Article

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