BEYOND THE BIO-MEDICAL ORTHODOXIES: SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ATTITUDINAL IMPEDIMENTS TO EXCLUSIVE BREAST FEEDING IN RURAL ZIMBABWE AND POSSIBLE ROLES OF SOCIAL WORKERS AND INTERVENTIONS TO PROMOTE ITS UPTAKE
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) which is one of the major remedies to infant and child mortality, is largely underutilised especially in rural Zimbabwe. EBF is a physiological process which transpires in a specific socio- economic milieu, to that end this paper labours to investigate the socio- econom...
Main Authors: | Muchacha, Munyaradzi, Mthetwa, Edmos |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Afrikaans |
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Stellenbosch University
2015-05-01
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Series: | Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk |
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Online Access: | http://socialwork.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/428 |
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