Use of maternal health services by remote dwelling aboriginal women in northern Australia and their disease burden

Birth

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 172-181

  Bar Zeev, Sarah ^a   Barclay, Lesley ^b   Kruske, Sue ^c,d   Bar Zeev, Naor ^e   Gao, Yu ^b   Kildea, Sue ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Australian; Maternal; Service use

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MATERNAL; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; PUERPERAL DISORDER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SERVICE USE; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT;

ABORIGINAL; AUSTRALIAN; MATERNAL; SERVICE USE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; NORTHERN TERRITORY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL CARE; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884731106     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/birt.12053     Document Type: Article

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