Evaluation of the Healthy Start voucher scheme on maternal vitamin use and child breastfeeding: a natural experiment using data linkage

Ruth Dundas ^1,^*, Massoud Boroujerdi ¹, Susan Browne ², Manuela Deidda ³, Paul Bradshaw ⁴, Peter Craig ¹, Emma McIntosh ³, Alison Parkes ¹, Daniel Wight ¹, Charlotte Wright ⁵, Alastair H Leyland ¹

¹ MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
² General Practice and Primary Care, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
³ Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
⁴ ScotCen Social Research, Edinburgh, UK
⁵ School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: ruth.dundas@glasgow.ac.uk

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