Breastfeeding practices of urban and rural mothers

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 891-894

  Oommen, A ^a   Vatsa, Manju ^a   Paul, V K ^a   Aggarwal, R ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; India; Infant feeding; Rural; Urban

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST FEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; URBAN AREA; URBAN HEALTH CARE;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOTHERS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 70350433675     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 00196061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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