'Breaking it down': Patient-clinician communication and prenatal care among African American women of low and higher literacy

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 334-340

  Bennett, Ian ^a   Switzer, Julia ^a   Aguirre, Abigail ^a   Evans, Kelley ^a   Barg, Frances ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication barriers; Educational status; Literacy; Low income population; Maternal health services; Patient physician relations; Pregnancy; Prenatal care

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAID; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRENATAL CARE; READING; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAID; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33746932922     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.548     Document Type: Article

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