Biocultural Determinants of Mothers' Complementary Feeding Decisions in the Urban Brazilian Amazon
Efforts to improve infant feeding must move beyond identifying individual factors and toward biocultural models that consider how political-economic and local contexts interact to influence the ethnomedical systems, household sociocultural dynamics, including income, gender, and age-based responsibilities, and power relations that shape feeding behaviors.
Authors
- Barbara A. Piperata (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7392-4517)
- Roseane Bittencourt Tavares de Oliveira
- Vanessa Silva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9406-8433)
- Taiana Cestonaro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3081-7586)
- José Pereira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4532-9972)
- S. F. Fannin
- A. C. Brito‐Azevedo
Institutions
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- The Ohio State University (US)
- Universidade Federal do Pará (BR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- American Journal of Human Biology
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.70068
- Primary Topic
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation