A descriptive phenomenology study of newcomers' experience of maternity care services: Chinese women's perspectives

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lee, Tsorng Yeh ^a   Landy, Christine Kurtz ^a   Wahoush, Olive ^b   Khanlou, Nazilla ^a   Liu, Yin Chun ^c   Li, Chia Chi ^d  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Access to maternity health services; Chinese; Immigrants; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CHINA; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MIGRANT; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PREGNANCY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CHINA; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84898601012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-114     Document Type: Article

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