Session 1: Public health nutrition Breast-feeding practices in Ireland

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 371-380

  Tarrant, Roslyn C ^a   Kearney, John M ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Breast feeding practices; Initiation determinants; Ireland

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; IRELAND; MALE; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ATTITUDE; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; IRELAND; MILK, HUMAN; MOTHERS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 53849111215     PISSN: 00296651     EISSN: 14752719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0029665108008665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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