Help bring back the celebration of life: A community-based participatory study of rural Aboriginal women's maternity experiences and outcomes

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Varcoe, Colleen ^a   Brown, Helen ^a   Calam, Betty ^a   Harvey, Thelma ^b   Tallio, Miranda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b University of British Columbia ^*  (Canada)

^c Family Support Worker   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Colonialism; Critical ethnography; Maternity care; Outcomes; Rural

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; COUNSELING; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL STRESS; NURSING; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION;

ADULT; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RACISM; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84872960318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-13-26     Document Type: Article

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