Socio-demographic inequalities across a range of health status indicators and health behaviours among pregnant women in prenatal primary care: A cross-sectional study

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Baron, Ruth ^a   Manniën, Judith ^a   te Velde, Saskia J ^b   Klomp, Trudy ^a   Hutton, Eileen K ^a,c   Brug, Johannes ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health inequality; Midwifery; Pregnancy; Primary care; Public health

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL SMOKING; MATERNAL WELFARE; MIDWIFE; NAUSEA; NETHERLANDS; OBESITY; PARITY; PASSIVE SMOKING; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STATUS; SUPPLEMENTATION; UNDERWEIGHT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84944042231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-015-0676-z     Document Type: Article

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