Optimal breastfeeding practice and associated factors among infants aged less than six months in Boke district, eastern Ethiopia: community-based cross-sectional study
Abstract:Background: Optimal breastfeeding is one of the best and cost-effective strategic interventions to prevent and reduce child death. Globally, it prevents 13% of childhood death, yearly. Few previous studies addressed the levels of domains of optimal breastfeeding practice separately, more emphasized the practice of urban-dwellers and employee mothers’ infants and focused on the practice of infants aged 6-24 months. This study assessed optimal breastfeeding practice and associated factors among infants aged 0-6 … Show more
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