Ethical issues in infant feeding after disasters

Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 672-680

  Binns, Colin W ^a   Lee, Mi Kyung ^b   Tang, Li ^a   Yu, Chuan ^a   Hokama, Tomiko ^c   Lee, Andy ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

disaster relief; ethics; infant feeding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST FEEDING; CHINA; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; ETHICS; HUMAN; INDONESIA; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; JAPAN; RELIEF WORK; TSUNAMI;

BREAST FEEDING; CHINA; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; HUMANS; INDONESIA; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; JAPAN; RELIEF WORK; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84865682214     PISSN: 10105395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1010539512453253     Document Type: Article

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