Birth centres: A success story

Practising Midwife

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 13-15

  Walsh, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MATERNITY WARD; MIDWIFE; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRTHING CENTERS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JOB SATISFACTION; MIDWIFERY; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREGNANCY; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY;

EID: 23044447432     PISSN: 14613123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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11. Walsh D (2005b). 'Temporality in a birth centre', C McCourt (ed), Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time, awaiting publication.
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