WIC and breastfeeding support services: Does the mix of services offered vary with race and ethnicity?

Breastfeeding Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 401-406

  Evans, Kelly ^a   Labbok, Miriam ^a   Abrahams, Sheryl W ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; NUTRITION SERVICE; NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING; PEER COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; NORTH CAROLINA; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 82555191154     PISSN: 15568253     EISSN: 15568342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2010.0086     Document Type: Article

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