"Being flexible and creative": A qualitative study on maternity care assistants' experiences with non-western immigrant women

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Boerleider, Agatha W ^a   Francke, Anneke L ^a,b   Van De Reep, Merle ^a   Manniën, Judith ^b   Wiegers, Therese A ^a   Devillé, Walter L J M ^a,c,d  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d National Knowledge and Advisory Center on Migrants Refugees and Health (Pharos)   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMMIGRANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNITY CARE ASSISTANT; NON WESTERN IMMIGRANT; PATIENT SAFETY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTNATAL CARE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SKILL; SOCIAL STATUS; CREATIVITY; FAMILY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MIGRANT; PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CREATIVITY; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; POSTNATAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84898721067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091843     Document Type: Article

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