A socio-ecological approach to understanding barriers to prenatal care for women of low income

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1170-1177

  Sword, Wendy ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Hamilton Wentworth Regional Public Health Department   (Canada)

Author keywords

Barriers; Health services utilization; Low income women; Prenatal care; Qualitative inquiry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 0033127768     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1999.00986.x     Document Type: Article

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