Anatomy of good prenatal care: Perspectives of low income African-American women on barriers and facilitators to prenatal care

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 79-86

  Mazul, Mary C ^a,b   Salm Ward, Trina C ^c,d   Ngui, Emmanuel M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d Center for Urban Population Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Infantmortality; Qualitative study; Racial disparity; Renatal care

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION; WISCONSIN;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; URBAN POPULATION; WISCONSIN;

EID: 85014960414     PISSN: 21973792     EISSN: 21968837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40615-015-0204-x     Document Type: Article

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