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Aboriginal maternal mortality: whose problem?
Author(s) -
Bastian Hilda
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1993.tb138039.x
Subject(s) - shame , developing country , developed country , maternal health , white (mutation) , maternal death , psychology , demography , developmental psychology , history , sociology , social psychology , economic growth , health services , economics , population , gene , biochemistry , chemistry
Surely the most striking fact about maternal health in the world today is the extraordinary difference in maternal death rates between industrialized and developing countries. 1 What for many white women is a joyous, sharing and close experience is for most Aboriginal women an experience of pain, fear and "shame" from which they flee as soon as possible. 2