Racial and ethnic disparities in breastfeeding

Breastfeeding Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 186-196

  Jones, Katherine M ^a,b   Power, Michael L ^a   Queenan, John T ^c   Schulkin, Jay ^a  

^a AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN INDIAN; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MEDLINE; MINORITY GROUP; PEER COUNSELING; POLICY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SUPPORT GROUP; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; INFANT; MOTHER; NEWBORN; POSTNATAL CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

BREAST FEEDING; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MINORITY GROUPS; MOTHERS; POSTNATAL CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928800029     PISSN: 15568253     EISSN: 15568342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2014.0152     Document Type: Review

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