ABSTRACT
Os autores tecem introdutoriamente consideraçöes sobre as vantagens do aleitamento humano e descrevem as causas sócio-econômicas que estäo influenciando no mundo, o abandono dessa prática. Em seguida descrevem e comentam os resultados de uma pesquisa realizada com um grupo de mäes e que teve como objetivo, estudar alguns aspectos relativos ao aleitamento de seus filhos.
Subject(s)
Breast Feeding , Socioeconomic Factors , Culture , Health Education , Public Health Nursing , Milk, Human , MothersABSTRACT
As an introduction the authors consider the advantages of breast-feeding, describing the social-economic causes which are influencing, the abandonment of this practice in the world. Following this they describe and comment on the results of a research project carried out with a group of mothers, which had as its objective to study some aspects relative to breast-feeding children.