Inadequate: A metaphor for the lives of low-income women?

Breastfeeding Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue SPECIAL ISSUE, 2009, Pages

  Chin, Nancy P ^a   Solomonik, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MILK, HUMAN; MOTHERS; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 70350445745     PISSN: 15568253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2009.0035     Document Type: Article

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