Caesarean or vaginal birth: Perceptions and experience of Thai women in Australian hospitals

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 604-608

  Rice, Pranee Liamputtong ^a   Naksook, Charin ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CESAREAN SECTION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ETHNIC GROUP; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; THAILAND; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 0031769239     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.1998.tb01446.x     Document Type: Article

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