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. 1990 Jan;80(1):74-5.
doi: 10.2105/ajph.80.1.74.

Infant formula promotion and the health sector in the Philippines

B M Popkin  1 , M E Fernandez, J L Avila
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Infant formula promotion and the health sector in the Philippines

B M Popkin et al. Am J Public Health. 1990 Jan.

Abstract

We use data collected in 1984, 1986, and 1988 from public and private health facilities in the Metropolitan Cebu area of the Philippines to assess effects of World Health Organization and Government of the Philippines Codes of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes on distribution of formula supplies. Distribution of free and low-cost infant formula declined drastically between 1986 and 1988. Industry compliance was almost complete.

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