PMID: 3764501Jan 1, 1986Paper

Cultural values and biomedical knowledge: choices in infant feeding. Analysis of a survey

Social Science & Medicine
A GabrielR A Lawrence

Abstract

This paper presents a study of 313 parturient women and considers their choices to bottle or breast feed. It examines demographic and cultural factors statistically and focuses on the effect of knowledge or ignorance of benefits of either method of infant feeding. Most women are found to have some biomedical knowledge of the benefits of breast feeding. The choice of bottle or breast feeding is closely associated with several demographic factors and a number of cultural ideas. Women who bottle feed see some of their dietary and other health related practices as barriers to breast feeding. It recommends that health practitioners who decide that individual women and/or their infants may benefit from breast feeding, should engage in a dialogue with the women. Such a dialogue should focus, not so much on information, but on the woman's views about her dietary and other health practices. If the woman is given compelling health reasons she may see herself as capable of changing some practices long enough to breast feed.

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