Ethnicity and use of obstetrical analgesia: Do Pakistani women receive inadequate pain relief in labour?

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 161-167

  Vangen, Siri ^a   Stoltenberg, Camilla ^b   Schei, Berit ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Ethnicity; Obstetrics; Pakistani women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; NEWBORN; NORWAY; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PAKISTAN; PARITY; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NORWAY; PAKISTAN; PARITY; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0030132624     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.1996.9961783     Document Type: Article

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