title: Breastfeeding decline in urban China:  an exploratory study.
abstract: "Retrospective data collected in two urban neighborhoods of Tianjin, People's Republic of China, reveal a decline in the rate and duration of breastfeeding since the mid-1930's.... The evidence indicates that breastfeeding declined as women became involved in work outside the home, as they adopted a form of postmarital residence that separated them from other relatives, as income increased, and as their rural origins decreased.  No evidence was found to indicate a relationship between breastfeeding and parity or sex preferences."
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001942:Breast Feeding; D002681:China; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004651:Employment; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D005843:Geography; D006262:Health; D006280:Health Workforce; D007182:Income; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D010298:Parity; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012723:Sex; D012922:Social Change; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014505:Urban Population; D014933:Women's Rights
keywords: Asia; Breast Feeding; China; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Eastern Asia; Economic Factors; Employment Status--women; Geographic Factors; Health; Historical Survey; Human Resources; Income; Infant Nutrition; Labor Force--women; Modernization; Nutrition; Parity; Population; Population Characteristics; Research Report; Residence Characteristics; Sex Preference; Social Change; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Spatial Distribution; Urban Population; Women's Status