Infant food marketing strategies undermine effective regulation of breast-milk substitutes: Trends in print advertising in Australia, 1950-2010

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 337-344

  Smith, Julie ^a   Blake, Miranda ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

bottle feeding; infant food; infant formula; marketing; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERTIZING; ARTIFICIAL MILK; AUSTRALIA; BABY FOOD; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MARKETING; MASS MEDIUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ARTICLE; BOTTLE FEEDING; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; AUSTRALIA; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; MARKETING; MASS MEDIA; MILK SUBSTITUTES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BOTTLE FEEDING; INFANT FOOD; INFANT FORMULA; MARKETING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84881505302     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1753-6405.12081     Document Type: Article

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