Integrating Women's Perspectives on Prenatal Human Immunodeficiency Virus Screening: Toward a Socially Just Policy

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 499-509

  Mawn, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Prenatal HIV screening; Qualitative policy research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; NURSING RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MASS SCREENING; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; NEONATAL SCREENING; NURSING RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 0032325433     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-240X(199812)21:6<499::AID-NUR4>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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