The relative importance of social class and maternal education for breast-feeding initiation

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2285-2292

  Skafida, Valeria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Infant feeding; Lactation; Social class

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SCOTLAND; SOCIAL CLASS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74949130488     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980009004947     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Fewtrell MS (2004) The long term benefits of having been breastfed. Curr Pediatr 14, 97-103.
2. Howie PW, Forsyth JS, Ogston SA, Clark A & Florey C (1990) Protective effects of breastfeeding against infection. BMJ 300, 11-16. (Pubitemid 20022804)
3. Sadauskaite-Kuenhne V, Ludvigsson J, Padaiga Z, Jasiskiene E & Samuelsson U (2004) Longer breastfeeding is an independent protective factor against development of type 1 diabetes mellitus in childhood. Diabetes Metab Res Rev 20, 150-157.
4. Wilson AC, Forsyth JS, Greene SA, Irvine L, Hau C & Howie PW (1998) Relation of infant diet to childhood health: seven-year follow-up of cohort of children in Dundee infant feeding study. BMJ 316, 21-25.
5. World Health Organization (1990) Innocenti Declaration on the Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding. Produced and adopted at the WHO/UNICEF Meeting on Breastfeeding in the 990's: A Global Initiative, Spedale degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy, 30 July-1 August 1990; available at http://www.unicef.org/programme/breastfeeding/ innocenti.htm
6. European Commission, EU Project on Promotion of Breastfeeding in Europe (2004) Protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding in Europe: a blueprint for action. Presented at EU Conference on Promotion of Breastfeeding in Europe, Dublin Castle, Ireland, 18 June 2004; available at http://www.iblce-europe.org/ Download/ Blueprint/Blueprint%20English.pdf
7. Scottish Executive (2006) Infant Feeding Strategy for Scotland: A Consultation Paper. Edinburgh: The Scottish Executive.
8. The Scottish Parliament (2005) Breastfeeding etc. (Scotland) Act 2005. 2005 asp 1; available at http://www. scottish.parliament.uk/business/bills/15- breastfeeding/index. htm
9. Dex S (2008) Millennium Cohort Study - Exploration of Some Distinctive Results for Scotland. http://openscotland. gov.uk/Publications/2007/12/18133613/ 0 (accessed January 2009).
10. Avishai O (2007) Managing the lactating body: the breastfeeding project and privileged motherhood. Qual Sociol 30, 135-152.
11. Earland J, Ibrahim SO & Harpin VA (1997) Maternal employment: does it influence feeding practices during infancy? J Hum Nutr Diet 10, 305-311.
12. Hamlyn B, Brooker S, Oleinikova K & Wands S (2002) Infant Feeding 2000: A Survey conducted on behalf of UK Health Departments by BMRB Social Research. London: The Stationery Office.
13. Houston MJ, Howie PW, Smart L, McArdle T & McNeilly AS (1983) Factors affecting the duration of breast feeding: 2. Early feeding practices and social class. Early Hum Dev 8, 55-63.
14. Jeliffe DB & Jeliffe EFP (1978) Human Milk in the Modern World: Psychosocial, Nutritional and Economic Significance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
15. Jones A, West R & Newcombe G (1986) Maternal characteristics associated with the duration of breast-feeding. Midwifery 2, 141-146.
16. Kelly YJ & Watt RG (2005) Breast-feeding initiation and exclusive duration a 6 months by social class - results from the Millennium Cohort Study. Public Health Nutr 8, 417-421.
17. Martin J & White A (1988) Infant Feeding 1985. London: HMSO.
18. Power C & Matthews S (1997) Origins of health inequalities in a national population sample. Lancet 350, 1584-1589.
19. Ludvigsson JF & Ludvigsson J (2005) Socio-economic determinants, maternal smoking and coffee consumption, and exclusive breastfeeding in 10 205 children. Acta Paediatr 94, 1310-1319.
20. Papadimitriou G, Kotzaeridou U, Mouratidis C, Goularas P, Coe C, Ganas A & Spencer NJ (2005) Rates and social patterning of household smoking and breastfeeding in contrasting European settings. Child Care Health Dev 31, 603-610.
21. Scott JA, Binns CW, Graham KI & Oddy WH (2006) Temporal changes in the determinants of breastfeeding initiation. Birth 33, 37-45.
22. Bolling K (2006) Infant Feeding Survey 2005: Early Results. http://www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/breastfeed2005 (accessed January 2009).
23. Crompton R (1998) Class and Stratification: An Introduction to Current Debates. Oxford: Polity Press.
24. Levine RF (1998) Social Class and Stratification: Classical Statements and Theoretical Debates. Lanham, MD: Rownman and Littlefield.
25. Wright EO (2005) Approaches to Class Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
26. Corbett J, Marryat L & Bradshaw P (2007) Growing Up in Scotland Sweep 1-2005: User Guide. Edinburgh: Scottish Centre for Social Research; available at http://www.crfr. ac.uk/gus/Data%20stuff/GUS%20SW1%20User%20Guide.pdf
27. Anderson S, Bradshaw P, Cunningham-Burley S, Hayes F, Jamieson L, MacGregor A, Marryat L & Wasoff F (2007) Growing Up in Scotland: A study following the lives of Scotland's children. Edinburgh: Scottish Executive Education Department; available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/ Publications/2007/01/17162004/0
28. Rose D & O'Reilly K (1998) The ESRC Review of Government Social Classifications: Final Report. Swindon: ESRC/ONS.
29. Hawkes D, Joshi H & Ward W (2004) Unequal Entry to Motherhood and Unequal Starts in Life: Evidence from the First Survey of the UK Millennium Cohort. London: Centre for Longitudinal Studies.
30. Hirschman C & Butler M (1981) Trends and differentials in breast feeding: an update. Demography 18, 39-54.
31. Joshi H & Wright RE (2004) Staring Life in Scotland in the New Millennium: Population Replacement and the Reproduction of Disadvantage. Glasgow: University of Strathclyde.
32. Arum R & Muller W (2004) The Reemergence of Selfemployment: A Comparative Study of Self-employment Dynamics and Social Inequality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
33. Barbieri P (2003) Social capital and self-employment: a network analysis experiment and several considerations. Int Sociol 18, 681-701.
34. Scottish Executive (2004) The Competitiveness of Higher Education in Scotland. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/ Publications/2004/03/19029/34063 (accessed January 2009).
35. Warren J (2005) The EU Blueprint - a benchmark for Scottish progress. http://www.breastfeed.scot.nhs.uk/EU- Blueprint-Scottish-Progress-October-2005. htm (accessed October 2008).