Contemporary patterns of breast-feeding : report on the WHO Collaborative Study on Breast-feeding.
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TextPublication details: Geneva : World Health Organization, 1981. Description: 211 pISBN: 9241560673Title translated: Les Modes actuels de l' allaitement maternel : rapport d'une étude collective de l' OMS sur l' allaitement maternel; Modalidades de la lactancia natural en la actualidad : informe sobre el estudio en colaboración de la OMS acerca de la lactancia naturalSubject(s): Breast feedingNLM classification: WS 125Online resources: Click here to access online Abstract: Reports the findings of a major cross-sectional study of breast-feeding involving twenty-three thousand mother-child pairs in nine countries in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia, Europe and the Pacific. The main objective was to determine which factors encourage or discourage breast-feeding and promote artificial feeding in different socio-economic groups. Conclusions indicate that urban middle- and upper-income groups are less likely to breast-feed than urban lower-income groups, that urban poor groups are less likely to breast-feed than rural traditional groups, and that the age and parity of mothers do not appear to influence breast-feeding behaviour. The study also underscored the importance of supplementary feeding, revealing some degree of growth impairment in the absence of additional foods by six months.
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Reports the findings of a major cross-sectional study of breast-feeding involving twenty-three thousand mother-child pairs in nine countries in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia, Europe and the Pacific. The main objective was to determine which factors encourage or discourage breast-feeding and promote artificial feeding in different socio-economic groups. Conclusions indicate that urban middle- and upper-income groups are less likely to breast-feed than urban lower-income groups, that urban poor groups are less likely to breast-feed than rural traditional groups, and that the age and parity of mothers do not appear to influence breast-feeding behaviour. The study also underscored the importance of supplementary feeding, revealing some degree of growth impairment in the absence of additional foods by six months.
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