Titre :
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Intersections of ethnicity and social class in provider advice regarding reproductive health. (2007)
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Auteurs :
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DOWNING (Roberta-A) : USA. Department of Health. Behavior and Society. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Baltimore. MD. ;
BULLOCK (Heather-E) : USA. Psychology Department. University of California. Santa Cruz. ;
LAVEIST (Thomas-A) : USA. Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions. Department of Health Policy and Management. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Baltimore.
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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American journal of public health (vol. 97, n° 10, 2007)
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Pagination :
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1803-1807
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Ethnie
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Classe sociale
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Femme enceinte
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Femme
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Grossesse
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Homme
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS R0xi74r1. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives. We examined how ethnicity and social class influence women's perceptions of reproductive health care. Of primary interest was assessing whether health care providers are perceived as advising low-income women, particularly women of color, to limit their childbearing and to what extent they feel they are discouraged by providers from having future children. Methods. Ethnically diverse, low-income (n=193) and middle-class women (n=146) completed a questionnaire about their pregnancy-related health care experiences. Results. Logistic regression analyses revealed that low-income women of color experienced greater odds of being advised to limit their childbearing than did middle-class White women. A separate model demonstrated that low-income Latinas reported greater odds of being discouraged from having children than did middle-class White women. Conclusions. Low-income women of color were more likely to report being advised to limit their childbearing and were more likely to describe being discouraged from having children than were middle-class White women. More research is needed regarding how ethnicity and social class impact women's experiences with reproductive health care.
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