Virginia Thorley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6562276 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Virginia Thorley |
| NOMBRES | Virginia |
| APELLIDO | Thorley |
| FIRMA | THORLEY V |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1305-5612 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 3 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Breastfeeding practices after a counselling intervention for factory workers in Bangladesh
Breastfeeding may be particularly challenging for female factory workers who have long working hours and inadequate access to health information and care. In Chattogram, Bangladesh, a peer counselling intervention was undertaken to improve infant feeding practices of factory workers. Counselling started during pregnancy and continued until children were 18 months old. This article presents the results of a cross-sectional survey undertaken during…
School Milk’ in the Context of the Australian Dairy Industry
Australia, as with a number of other countries with dairy industries, established a national school milk scheme which operated from 1951 to the beginning of 1974 at no cost to the children's families. The scheme, funded by the federal government and administered by the states, ended abruptly after costs blew out, with resultant losses by the industry. This article describes the limited provision of milk in schools in two states prior to the natio…
A mother, yet not ‘mother’
The wet-nurse hired to breastfeed an unrelated infant was herself a mother, whether her child was born alive or stillborn. Yet paradoxically her motherhood was subsumed in the nature of her employment and the existence of her own baby ignored, as she was valued only for her milk. Her workplace was the employer's home, her own home, or an institution. Occupational conditions were far from homogenous, as were the effects of her employment on her ow…
A mother, yet not ‘mother’
The wet-nurse hired to breastfeed an unrelated infant was herself a mother, whether her child was born alive or stillborn. Yet paradoxically her motherhood was subsumed in the nature of her employment and the existence of her own baby ignored, as she was valued only for her milk. Her workplace was the employer's home, her own home, or an institution. Occupational conditions were far from homogenous, as were the effects of her employment on her ow…
A mother, yet not ‘mother’
The wet-nurse hired to breastfeed an unrelated infant was herself a mother, whether her child was born alive or stillborn. Yet paradoxically her motherhood was subsumed in the nature of her employment and the existence of her own baby ignored, as she was valued only for her milk. Her workplace was the employer's home, her own home, or an institution. Occupational conditions were far from homogenous, as were the effects of her employment on her ow…
School Milk’ in the Context of the Australian Dairy Industry
Australia, as with a number of other countries with dairy industries, established a national school milk scheme which operated from 1951 to the beginning of 1974 at no cost to the children's families. The scheme, funded by the federal government and administered by the states, ended abruptly after costs blew out, with resultant losses by the industry. This article describes the limited provision of milk in schools in two states prior to the natio…
Breastfeeding practices after a counselling intervention for factory workers in Bangladesh
Breastfeeding may be particularly challenging for female factory workers who have long working hours and inadequate access to health information and care. In Chattogram, Bangladesh, a peer counselling intervention was undertaken to improve infant feeding practices of factory workers. Counselling started during pregnancy and continued until children were 18 months old. This article presents the results of a cross-sectional survey undertaken during…
Context (archaeology (2 obras) · Medicine (2 obras) · Nursing (2 obras) · Agricultural economics (1 obras) · Australian History and Society (1 obras) · Biology (1 obras) · Breastfeeding (1 obras) · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (1 obras) · Business (1 obras) · Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (1 obras)