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Breastfeeding decline in urban China: an exploratory study
Human ecology • 13 (4) • Published In 1985 • Pages: 433-466
By: Pasternak, Burton, Ching, Wang.
Abstract
This is a study of breastfeeding in a suburb of Tianjin. The authors test various factors that might have contributed to the steady decline in breastfeeding: examining women's age at marriage, educational attainment, full-time employment, postmarital residence, and availability of baby food supplements. All seem to have some effect; however, the authors were unable to come to one overriding theory.
- Subjects
- Infant feeding
- Weaning and food training
- culture
- Han Chinese
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field Date
- 1981-1982
- Coverage Date
- 1920-1981
- Coverage Place
- Red Sky, West River District, Tianjin City, People's Republic of Chin
- Notes
- Burton Pasternak and Wang Ching
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-466)
- LCCN
- 72623826
- LCSH
- China--Social life and customs