Urban women's socioeconomic status, health service needs and utilization in the four weeks after postpartum hospital discharge: Findings of a Canadian cross-sectional survey

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kurtz Landy, Christine ^a   Sword, Wendy ^a   Ciliska, Donna ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; VAGINAL DELIVERY; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ADOLESCENT; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MIGRATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEWBORN; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ONTARIO; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 54249126497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-203     Document Type: Article

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