title: Socio-cultural plurality in obstetrics and gynaecology in The Netherlands: research note.
abstract: This article reports on an ongoing exploratory study of the quality of obstetrical and gynaecological care for an ethnic pluriform patient population in two non-academic city hospitals in the Netherlands. A bird's eye view is given of the study's background, goals and methodology, followed by a few preliminary results and by some concluding remarks about the need to pay more attention to cultural diversity in health care.
authors.affiliation: Women and Health Care, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands. womanhealth@lume.nl
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Richters
mesh_terms: D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006302:Health Services Research; D006786:Hospitals, Urban; D006801:Humans; D008427:Maternal Health Services / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009426:Netherlands; D011787:Quality of Health Care