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Trends in breast feeding among American mothers / Charles Hirschman and Gerry E. Hendershot.

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  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (iv, 39 pages) : illustrations.
  • Publisher: Hyattsville, Md. : Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Office of the Health Research, Statistics, and Technology, National Center for Health Statistics, 1979.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"November 1979."
"Statistics based on data collected in 1973 are presented on breast feeding of first- and second-born babies. The percentages of mothers who breast fed and who breast fed for 3 months or more are distributed by year of the mother's birth and year of the baby's birth. These distributions are shown separately for women classified by race or ethnicity, geographic region, and various socioeconomic variables."
CRDP Program record.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 12).
Source of Description Note:
Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from cover (CDC, viewed August 23, 2018).
Subject: Breastfeeding > United States > Statistics.
Mothers > United States > Statistics.
Genre: Statistics.
Trends in breast feeding among American mothers