Factors Affecting Exclusive Breastfeeding among Women in Muheza District Tanga Northeastern Tanzania: A Mixed Method Community Based Study

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 77-87

  Maonga, Aubrey R ^a,b   Mahande, Michael J ^b   Damian, Damian J ^b,c   Msuya, Sia E ^b,c  

^a St Augustine Muheza   (Tanzania)

^b KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Tanzania)

^c KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Community based study; Exclusive breastfeeding; Factors; Sub Saharan Africa; Tanzania; Women; Worldwide

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TANZANIA; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFERY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA;

EID: 84954397432     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-015-1805-z     Document Type: Article

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