Promotion of exclusive breast-feeding at scale within routine health services: Impact of breast-feeding counselling training for community health workers in Recife, Brazil

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 948-955

  Coutinho, Sonia B ^a   Lira, Pedro I C ^a   Lima, Marilia C ^a   Frias, Paulo G ^b   Eickmann, Sophie H ^a   Ashworth, Ann ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b Municipal Secretariat of Health   (Brazil)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast feeding counselling; Promotion of exclusive breast feeding; Scaling up child survival interventions; Training community health workers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER;

BRAZIL; BREAST FEEDING; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MOTHERS;

EID: 84903716249     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980013001833     Document Type: Article

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