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Determinants of early cessation of exclusive breastfeeding practices among rural mothers from Jaffna District of Sri Lanka

BACKGROUND: Sri Lanka is an upper-middle-income country with excellent health statistics. However, 2016 Demographic and Health Survey data have shown 82% and 64% of mothers exclusively breastfed infants aged 0–6 months and 4–5 months, respectively. The short duration of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF)...

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Autores principales: Karthigesu, Kandeepan, Balakumar, Sandrasegarampillai, Arasaratnam, Vasanthy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10426130/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37580743
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13006-023-00575-z