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WHO COLLABORATIVE STUDY ON BREAST FEEDING
Author(s) -
HOFVANDER Y.,
PETROSBARVAZIAN A.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1978.tb17801.x
Subject(s) - medicine , breast feeding , epidemiology , breastfeeding , intervention (counseling) , breast milk , developing country , menstruation , environmental health , demography , pediatrics , nursing , economic growth , biochemistry , chemistry , sociology , economics
. WHO, concerned with the declining breast feeding rate in developing countries, has organized investigations in nine different countries of different aspects of breast feeding and breast milk with the ultimate aim of formulating programmes of intervention. The basic epidemiological study on 24 000 mother/child pairs is just completed and some preliminary data are reported on the pattern of breast feeding in the three studied socio‐economic groups—urban elite, urban poor and traditional rural—which differ significantly in their breast feeding rate as well as in the pattern of return of menstruation in breast‐feeding and non‐breast‐feeding mothers.