Healthcare worker's perceptions of barriers to care by immigrant women with postpartum depression: An exploratory qualitative study

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 93-101

  Teng, L ^a   Robertson Blackmore, E ^b   Stewart, D E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Barriers; Healthcare providers; Postpartum depression; Recent immigrant women

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; STIGMA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ONTARIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POSTNATAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 34249778662     PISSN: 14341816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-007-0176-x     Document Type: Article

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