01621nam a22002537a 4500 D0001B000202 DOH 20201226095722.0 201226b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9241560673 rda Contemporary patterns of breast-feeding : report on the WHO Collaborative Study on Breast-feeding Geneva : WHO, 1981. 211 pages. rdacontent text rdamedia unmediated rdacarier volume 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. Breast Feeding WHO Collaborative Study on Breast-Feeding World Health Organization https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/40079/9241560673_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y nlm BK 2191 2191 0 0 nlm 0 0 DOHCL DOHCL WHOPub 2020-12-26 0 RA 784 CON 1981 D0001B000203 2020-12-26 00:00:00 2020-12-26 BK