"I have to do what I believe": Sudanese women's beliefs and resistance to hegemonic practices at home and during experiences of maternity care in Canada

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Higginbottom, Gina M A ^a   Safipour, Jalal ^a   Mumtaz, Zubia ^a   Chiu, Yvonne ^b   Paton, Patricia ^c   Pillay, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Multicultural Health Brokers Co operative   (Canada)

^c ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Canada; Culture; Focused ethnography; Maternity; Pregnancy; Refugee; Sudanese

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTERVIEW; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SUDAN; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; CANADA; CULTURE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PARTURITION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REFUGEES; SUDAN; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84874174496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-13-51     Document Type: Article

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