Attempted breastfeeding before hospital discharge on both sides of the US-Mexico border, 2005: The brownsville-matamoros sister city project for women's health

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Castrucci, Brian C ^a   Carrizales, Leticia E Piña ^b   D'Angelo, Denise V ^c   McDonald, Jill A ^c   Foulkes, Hillary ^a   Ahluwalia, Indu B ^c   Gossman, Ginger L ^a   Acuña, Juan ^c   Erickson, Tracy ^a   Clatanoff, Kathy ^a   Lewis, Kayan ^a   Mirchandani, Gita ^a   Smith, Brian ^a  

^a TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^b Secretariat of Health   (Mexico)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MEXICO; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MEXICO; PARTURITION; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TEXAS; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 58149131594     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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