Promotion and prelacteal feeding of breastmilk substitutes among mothers in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue , 2016, Pages 8-21

  Pries, Alissa M ^a   Huffman, Sandra L ^a   Adhikary, Indu ^a   Upreti, Senendra Raj ^b   Dhungel, Shrid ^a   Champeny, Mary ^c   Zehner, Elizabeth ^c  

^a HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Minister for Health and Population Nepal   (Nepal)

^c HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Breastmilk substitutes; Nepal; Prelacteal feeding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER; NEPAL; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FOOD PACKAGING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; NUTRITION; NUTRITION POLICY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD LABELING; HUMANS; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHERS; NEPAL; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC;

EID: 84962775796     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mcn.12205     Document Type: Article

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