Breastfeeding status on US birth certificates: Where do we go from here?

Pediatrics

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Chapman, Donna J ^a   Merewood, Anne ^b   Armah, Robert Ackatia ^b   Perez Escamilla, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth certificate; Breastfeeding; Exclusive breastfeeding; Standard certificate of live birth; US birth certificate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; BREAST FEEDING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VITAL STATISTICS; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; REGISTER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRTH CERTIFICATES; BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; REGISTRIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249094191     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-1662     Document Type: Article

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