A story of stigma: Australian women's accounts of smoking during pregnancy

Critical Public Health

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 466-481

  Wigginton, Britta ^a   Lee, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; pregnancy; qualitative; smoking; stigma; tobacco control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FETAL WELL BEING; FETUS MORTALITY; FETUS WASTAGE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL SMOKING; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STIGMA; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW;

EID: 84887049362     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2012.753408     Document Type: Article

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