title: The need for action.
abstract: Nutrition workers speculated about why poor mothers should decide to bottle feed, when their community in the past had apparently always breastfed effortlessly and successfully. Surveys cross-tabulated feeding methods against socioeconomic variables, but it was difficult to make use of the results. Few thought that there was anything we needed to learn about HOW to make breastfeeding succeed. There was also a tacit assumption that if you had the resources--for example if you were yourself an employed health worker--you could bottle feed safely, so there was no need to worry.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Child Health, London, UK.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Savage
mesh_terms: D001903:Bottle Feeding; D001942:Breast Feeding; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans