report on the WHO Collaborative Study on Breast-feeding WHO Collaborative Study on Breast-Feeding World Health Organization text Geneva WHO 1981 monographic eng

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211 pages. 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 9241560673 https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/40079/9241560673_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/40079/9241560673_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 201226 20201226095722.0 D0001B000202