How women choose where to give birth

Practising Midwife

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 10-15

  Lavender, Tina ^a   Chapple, Jean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Westminster Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRTH; DELIVERY ROOM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; MATERNITY WARD; MIDWIFE; OBSTETRICS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; BIRTHING CENTERS; DELIVERY ROOMS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; MIDWIFERY; OBSTETRICS; PARTURITION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 25644460483     PISSN: 14613123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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