Community-based perinatal depression services for African American women: The healthy start model

Social Work in Public Health

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 568-583

  Ley, Christine E ^a   Copeland, Valire Carr ^a   Flint, Cheryl Squire ^b   White, Joanne S ^b   Wexler, Sandra ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Healthy Start Inc   (United States)

^c MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American women; Healthy Start Initiative; Perinatal depression; Social work

Indexed keywords

COLOR; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SERVICES; INFANT MORTALITY; SOCIAL WORK; WOMENS HEALTH;

UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NURSING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL WORK;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 73449128746     PISSN: 19371918     EISSN: 1937190X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19371910802679622     Document Type: Article

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