Developing population interventions with migrant women for maternal-child health: A focused ethnography

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gagnon, Anita J ^a,b,c   Carnevale, Franco ^a,c   Mehta, Praem ^a   Rousseau, Hélène ^b   Stewart, Donna E ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Childbirth; Health services; Immigrants; Qualitative research; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CANADA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH CENTERS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877600592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-471     Document Type: Article

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