Community health workers: Collaborating to support breastfeeding among high-risk inner-city mothers

Breastfeeding Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-78

  Furman, Lydia M ^a   Dickinson, Catherine ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO BREAST FEEDING; BODY IMAGE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CHILD CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MOTHER; PAIN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST FEEDING; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE STYLE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; OHIO; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84873365273     PISSN: 15568253     EISSN: 15568342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2012.0027     Document Type: Article

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