Is the lack of health insurance the major barrier to early prenatal care at an inner-city hospital?

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 97-105

  Parchment, Winsome ^b   Weiss, Gerson ^b   Passannante, Marian R ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL CARE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PRENATAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0029892447     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1049-3867(95)00048-8     Document Type: Article

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