Scaling up protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding at the community level

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Casanovas, Carmen ^a   Saadeh, Randa ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Community outreach; Global strategy for infant and young child feeding; Infant and young child feeding

Indexed keywords

BREASTFEEDING; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; INFANT FEEDING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 68949163702     PISSN: 03795721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/15648265090302s207     Document Type: Article

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