Introduction
Biocultural factors affecting infant feeding and growth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2150848 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan S Ryan (0000-0002-8289-8197, Ross Laboratories (United States), corresponding author), Judith D Gussler |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 93-95 |
| Publication date | 1985-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.1985.9965922 |
| PMID | 3836323 |
| OpenAlex | W2134324852 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
A multitude of social cultural psychological economic and biological circumstances influence the ways in which mothers and other caretakers feed youngsters during their 1st year of life. The holistic and biocultural approach and perspective of anthropology have been particularly useful in infant feeding research. This group of papers demonstrates some of the directions that infant feeding research has taken in recent years. Most of the contributors are anthropologists or epidemiologists and nutritionists with anthropological training. The results indicate that many significant variables are unaccounted for in data collection. The right issues are being addressed however. These include: what are the important extrinsic and intrinsic factors that shape initial breast and bottle feeding decisions? What are the most important components of modernization that adversley affect the prevalence and duration of breast feeding? Why and how has that effect been arrested in developed countries? What biocultural conditions influence the decision to breastfeed? When and why are bottle feeds semi-solid and solid foods introduced into the infant feeding regimen? The papers presented investigate these questions using various analysis techniques including ethnographic techniques and cross-cultural analysis. Questions about the potential longterm effects of different infant feeding regimens on childhood growth are also considered. 1 study examines a specific set of cultural factors that shape infant feeding practices in a single population. Another focuses on the duration of exclusive breastfeeding and its relationship to such factors as maternal nutritional status among American women
Biology · Breast feeding · Breast milk · Breastfeeding · Developmental psychology · Ethnography · Geography · Infant feeding · Population · Sociology · Anthropology · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Medicine · Psychology · Pediatrics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 1989 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |