Poor infant and young child feeding practices and sources of caregivers' feeding knowledge in rural Hebei Province, China: findings from a cross-sectional survey
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Poor infant and young child feeding practices and sources of caregivers’ feeding knowledge in rural Hebei Province, China: findings from a cross-sectional survey
OBJECTIVES To obtain a general overview of infant and young child feeding practices in one rural county in China and identify current delivery channels and challenges. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING A rural county, Zhao County, in Hebei Province, China. PARTICIPANTS 10 clusters were first selected within each township (16 townships in total) with proportional to population size s...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Open
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2044-6055
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005108