Breast-feeding versus formula: cost comparison.
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Summary
When Peterkin and Walker published a cost estimate of feeding a baby in the U.S. in 1976, they found there was little difference in cost between breast-feeding and formula feeding, but since then, the cost of formula has risen drastically--more than 150% during the 1980s.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1993-01-01
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 10
- Access
- Open access
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Keywords
Breast feeding, Medicine, Formula feeding, Mathematics, Statistics
References
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