Breast feeding and intergenerational social mobility: What are the mechanisms?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 666-671

  Sacker, A ^a   Kelly, Y ^a   Iacovou, M ^b   Cable, N ^a   Bartley, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; COGNITION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CLASS; STRESS;

BREASTFEEDING; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; NEURODEVELOPMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SOCIAL MOBILITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883133812     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2012-303199     Document Type: Article

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