Midwives’ views on factors that contribute to health care inequalities among immigrants in Sweden: a qualitative study
Open Access
- 1 January 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in International Journal for Equity in Health
- Vol. 11 (1) , 47
Abstract
Ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in the Swedish health care system have increased. Most indicators suggest that immigrants have significantly poorer health than native Swedes. The purpose of this study was to explore the views of midwives on the factors that contribute to health care inequality among immigrants.Keywords
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