Health professional knowledge of breastfeeding: Are the health risks of infant formula feeding accurately conveyed by the titles and abstracts of journal articles?

Journal of Human Lactation

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 350-358

  Smith, Julie ^a   Dunstone, Mark ^b   Elliott Rudder, Megan ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attitudes; Breastfeeding; Clinician support; Communication; Delivery of health care; Health education; Health knowledge; Health personnel; Health promotion; Health services; Practice

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; ATTITUDE TO BREAST FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFANT FORMULA; MALE; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 68649125599     PISSN: 08903344     EISSN: 15525732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0890334409331506     Document Type: Article

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