A community-based participatory research approach to explore community perceptions of the quality of maternal-newborn health services in the Dominican Republic

Midwifery

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 504-511

  Foster, Jennifer ^a   Burgos, Rosa ^b   Tejada, Carmen ^c   Cáceres, Ramona ^c   Altamonte, Asela T ^d   Perez, Lydia J ^d   Noboa, Frank R M ^d   Urbaez, Marilyn F ^d   Heath, Annemarie ^e   Hilliard, Rebecca C ^a   Chiang, Fidela ^a   Hall, Priscilla ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centro Universitario Regional del Nordeste   (Dominican Republic)

^c Hospital San Vicente de Paúl   (Dominican Republic)

^d San Francisco de Macorís ^*  (Dominican Republic)

^e Proyecto ADAMES   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based participatory research; Health care quality; Maternal health services

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDWIFE; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PERCEPTION; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH CENTERS; MIDWIFERY; PREGNANCY; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956991514     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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