Breast feeding, birth spacing and their effects on child survival
- 1 October 1988
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 335 (6192), 679-682
- https://doi.org/10.1038/335679a0
Abstract
It has long been known that breast feeding inhibits female fertility and that it is a factor in restricting population growth. But just how important is it?Keywords
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