D. "Each one is a doctor for herself": Ramadan fasting among pregnant Muslim women in the United States

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 1 SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Robinson, Trinka ^a   Raisler, Jeanne ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; DIET RESTRICTION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOSLEM; PREGNANT WOMAN; RELIGION; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIAL BELIEF; UNITED STATES; ARAB; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ARABS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FASTING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; ISLAM; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 15944399082     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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