Trends in maternal and newborn health characteristics and obstetric interventions among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers in Western Australia from 1986 to 2009

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 245-251

  Diouf, Ibrahima ^a   Gubhaju, Lina ^a   Chamberlain, Catherine ^a,b   McNamara, Bridgette ^a   Joshy, Grace ^c   Oats, Jeremy ^b   Stanley, Fiona ^d   Eades, Sandra ^a,e  

^a BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c The Australian National University   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; health; mothers; newborn; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTEPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFANT; LABOR INDUCTION; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN HEALTH; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STILLBIRTH; TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WELFARE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; CESAREAN SECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MOTHER; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UTERUS BLEEDING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LABOR, INDUCED; MOTHERS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PREMATURE BIRTH; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; STILLBIRTH; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949266409     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajo.12416     Document Type: Article

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