Breastfeeding practices in urban and rural Vietnam

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Thu, Huong Nguyen ^a,b   Eriksson, Bo ^b   Khanh, Toan Tran ^c   Petzold, Max ^b   Bondjers, Göran ^d   Kim, Chuc Nguyen Thi ^c   Thanh, Liem Nguyen ^a   Ascher, Henry ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL OF PEDIATRICS   (Viet Nam)

^b NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

^c HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Hanoi; Rural; Urban; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; VIET NAM;

BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHERS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VIETNAM;

EID: 84868665143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-964     Document Type: Article

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