Home-birth emergencies in the US and Mexico: The trouble with transport

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1911-1931

  Davis Floyd, Robbie ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Childbirth; Home birth; Hospital; Mexico; Midwives; Transport; US

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HOSPITAL SECTOR; MATERNAL HEALTH; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

BIOMEDICINE; CHILDBIRTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HOME DELIVERY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MATERNAL CARE; MEXICO; MIDWIFE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; REPRODUCTION; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEWS; MALPRACTICE; MEXICO; MIDWIFERY; OBSTETRICS; PHYSICIAN-NURSE RELATIONS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; UNITED STATES;

MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037400665     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00213-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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