Breastfeeding and infant sleep--what medical practitioners need to know
(2019)
Book Chapter
Ball, H. L. (2019). Breastfeeding and infant sleep--what medical practitioners need to know. In A. Brown, & W. Jones (Eds.), A Guide to Supporting Breastfeeding for the Medical Profession. Routledge
All Outputs (4)
Toward an integrated anthropology of infant sleep (2019)
Journal Article
Ball, H., Tomori, C., & McKenna, J. (2019). Toward an integrated anthropology of infant sleep. American Anthropologist, 121(3), 595-612. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13284This paper provides a novel synthesis of anthropological research on infant sleep focusing on work in biological and sociocultural anthropology in the past decade. First, we briefly review early biological anthropological research into infant sleep b... Read More about Toward an integrated anthropology of infant sleep.
An Integrated Analysis of Maternal-Infant Sleep, Breastfeeding, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Research Supporting a Balanced Discourse (2019)
Journal Article
Marinelli, K. A., Ball, H. L., McKenna, J. J., & Blair, P. S. (2019). An Integrated Analysis of Maternal-Infant Sleep, Breastfeeding, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Research Supporting a Balanced Discourse. Journal of Human Lactation, 35(3), 510-520. https://doi.org/10.1177/0890334419851797Breastfeeding and the place of sleep for the mother and the infant have been controversial internationally due to reported concerns regarding infant deaths despite the known benefits of exclusive and prolonged breastfeeding, which are increased by br... Read More about An Integrated Analysis of Maternal-Infant Sleep, Breastfeeding, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Research Supporting a Balanced Discourse.
About Research: Conducting Online Surveys (2019)
Journal Article
Ball, H. L. (2019). About Research: Conducting Online Surveys. Journal of Human Lactation, 35(3), 413-417. https://doi.org/10.1177/0890334419848734There is an established methodology for conducting survey research that aims to ensure rigorous research and robust outputs. With the advent of easy-to-use online survey platforms, however, the quality of survey studies has declined. This article sum... Read More about About Research: Conducting Online Surveys.