"Like a lots happened with my whole childhood": Violence, trauma, and addiction in pregnant and postpartum women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Harm Reduction Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Torchalla, Iris ^a,b   Linden, Isabelle Aube ^a   Strehlau, Verena ^a,b   Neilson, Erika K ^a   Krausz, Michael ^a,b  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gender based violence; Pregnancy; Substance use; Trauma; Women

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUNSELING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PUERPERIUM; PUNISHMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUBSTANCE USE; VIOLENCE; CANADA; EVALUATION STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; URBAN POPULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENDER BASED VIOLENCE; HARM REDUCTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; NEIGHBORHOOD; OFFENDER; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PSYCHOTRAUMA;

ADULT; CANADA; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84929316556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7517-11-34     Document Type: Article

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