How do Australian maternity and early childhood health services identify and respond to the settlement experience and social context of refugee background families?

Table 4 Number of Afghan women (n = 16) reporting that a health professional asked about social circumstances during pregnancy or after the birth

	Doctor asked	Midwife or nurse asked	No-one asked
About your family here in Australia and overseas?*	4	9	6/16
If you had relationship problems?*	1	6	10/16
If you had financial worries?	0	3	13/16
If you had housing problems?	0	2	14/16
Whether there was violence at home?*	1	3	13/16
If you or anyone at home had legal problems?	0	1	15/16

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