Breastfeeding during the first hour of life and neonatal mortality

Jornal de Pediatria

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 131-136

  Boccolini, Cristiano Siqueira ^a,b   De Carvalho, Márcia Lazaro ^a   De Oliveira, Maria Inês Couto ^c   Pérez Escamilla, Rafael ^d  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Child mortality; Epidemiologic Measurements; Maternal and child health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KERNEL METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84876884310     PISSN: 00217557     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jped.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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