Balancing nurturance, cost and time: Complementary feeding in Accra, Ghana

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages 66-81

  Pelto, Gretel H ^a   Armar Klemesu, Margaret ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Focused ethnographic studies; Infant feeding beliefs and practices; Social determinants of infant feeding; Use of commercial infant cereals; Women's time allocation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD NUTRITION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GHANA; HUMAN; INFANT FEEDING; NURTURING BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME; URBAN AREA;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BREAST FEEDING; CEREALS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH FOOD; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MOTHERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 80052977892     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2011.00351.x     Document Type: Article

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