Ethnic differences in women's worries about labour and birth

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 213-223

  Redshaw, Maggie ^a   Heikkilä, Katriina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black and ethnic minority women; childbirth; ethnicity; worries; worry

Indexed keywords

CHILD LABOR; ETHNIC CONFLICT; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; LOGISTICS; MATERNAL CARE; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CAUCASIAN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LABOR; LABOR PAIN; PAIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERIUM; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENGLAND; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR PAIN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PAIN; PARTURITION; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79958741082     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2011.561302     Document Type: Article

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