TY  - BOOK
ED  - WHO Collaborative Study on Breast-Feeding.
ED  - World Health Organization.
TI  - Contemporary patterns of breast-feeding: report on the WHO Collaborative Study on Breast-feeding
SN  - 9241560673
PY  - 1981///
CY  - Geneva
PB  - World Health Organization
KW  - Breast feeding
N2  - 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
UR  - http://apps.who.int/iris/
ER  -