Initiation and duration of breast-feeding in Indonesia / M.B. Iskandar, C. Costello and Y. Nasution.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Iskandar, M.B., author.

Contributor:

Costello, C..

Nasution, Y..

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population and Demography.

Indonesia.

Local Subjects:

Population and Demography.

Indonesia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 pages)

Contained In:

Asia-Pacific Population Journal Vol. 5, no. 1, p. 89-112 5:1<89 15644278

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations, 1990.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Breast-feeding plays an important and influential role in child survival and fertility, offering immunological protection to an infant against early morbidity and mortality, and contraceptive protection to a mother against closely spaced pregnancies. In developing countries, breast-fed infants experience substantially lower morbidity and mortality risks than infants who are not breast-fed, particularly in the first year of life (Retherford and others, 1989; Pebley and Stupp, 1986; Palloni and Millman, 1986; Grant, 1984; Knodel and Kintner, 1977; Wray, 1977). A survey of 33 comparative studies of breast- and bottle-feeding in different parts of the world has concluded that the risk of death in infancy is three times higher for "mixed-fed" babies (both breast- and bottle-fed) and five times higher for babies who are exclusively bottle-fed (Grant, 1984) relative to exclusively breast-fed babies.

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