"I get hungry all the time": Experiences of poverty and pregnancy in an urban healthcare setting in South Africa

Globalization and Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Scorgie, Fiona ^a,b   Blaauw, Duane ^a   Dooms, Tessa ^c   Coovadia, Ashraf ^b   Black, Vivian ^b   Chersich, Matthew ^a,b  

^a Centre for Health Policy Johannesburg   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Antenatal care; Nutrition; Poverty; Pregnancy; Social determinants of health; South Africa

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; NUTRITION; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONAL NEEDS; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; ADOLESCENT; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; PRENATAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

GAUTENG; JOHANNESBURG; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84939805955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12992-015-0122-z     Document Type: Article

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