WIC infant food package issuance data are a valid measure of infant feeding practices

Journal of Human Lactation

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 134-138

  Whaley, Shannon E ^a   Koleilat, Maria ^a   Jiang, Lu ^a  

^a and Children Program   (United States)

Author keywords

data collection; instrument validation; WIC

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NUTRITION; POVERTY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL CARE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; DATA COLLECTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; NUTRITION SURVEYS; POVERTY; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860295366     PISSN: 08903344     EISSN: 15525732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0890334412436720     Document Type: Article

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