Maternal years of schooling but not academic skills is independently associated with infant-feeding practices in a cohort of rural Guatemalan women.

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Published in J Hum Lact on February 03, 2009

Authors

Aimee L Webb1, Daniel W Sellen, Usha Ramakrishnan, Reynaldo Martorell

Author Affiliations

1: Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Initiatives in Global Health, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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