Mother and newborn skin-to-skin contact and timely initiation of breastfeeding in sub-Saharan Africa

• Richard Gyan Aboagye,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Family and Community Health, Fred N. Binka School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Hohoe, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3498-2909

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• Bright Opoku Ahinkorah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, REMS Consult Limited, Sekondi-Takoradi, Western Region, Ghana

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• Abdul-Aziz Seidu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations REMS Consult Limited, Sekondi-Takoradi, Western Region, Ghana, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia, Centre For Gender and Advocacy, Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9734-9054

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• Stephen Kofi Anin,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany, Department of Industrial and Health Sciences, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5882-4991

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• James Boadu Frimpong ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: frimpongboadujames@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, Department of Kinesiology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9416-1176

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• John Elvis Hagan Jr

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, Neurocognition and Action-Biomechanics-Research Group, Faculty of Psychology and Sport Sciences, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3530-6133

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