Encouraging breastfeeding: Financial incentives

Practising Midwife

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 18-21

  Whitford, Heather ^a   Whelan, Barbara ^b   Van Cleemput, Patrice ^b   Thomas, Katharine ^b   Renfrew, Mary ^a   Strong, Mark ^b   Scott, Elaine ^c   Relton, Clare ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Nourishing Start for Health (NOSH) Study   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Financial incentives; Qualitative interviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SHOPPING; ECONOMICS; HEALTH PROMOTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDWIFE; MOTHER; MOTIVATION; NEWBORN; POSTNATAL CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PUERPERIUM; SOCIAL WELFARE; UNITED KINGDOM;

BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDWIFERY; MOTHERS; MOTIVATION; POSTNATAL CARE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; SOCIAL WELFARE;

EID: 84946212141     PISSN: 14613123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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