Exclusive breastfeeding: measurement and indicators
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Exclusive breastfeeding: measurement and indicators
BACKGROUND Accurate measurement of the duration of exclusive breastfeeding is complicated by factors related to definitions, timing, duration of recall, methods of analysis, and sample biases. Clearly prospective methods are likely to be more accurate but are too expensive to use in most large-scale surveys. Internationally, most surveys use a point-in-time or current status measurement (usuall...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Breastfeeding Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1746-4358
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4358-9-18