A qualitative assessment of structural barriers to prenatal care and congenital syphilis prevention in Kern County, California

• Elaine Y. L. Chan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elaine Y. L. Chan, Carolyn Smullin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Carolyn Smullin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elaine Y. L. Chan, Carolyn Smullin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0794-5790

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• Stephanie Clavijo ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Melissa Papp-Green ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Eunhee Park ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6442-8119

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• Marlene Nelson ,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Social Sciences and Education, California State University-Bakersfield, Bakersfield, California, United States of America

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• Gloria Giarratano ,

  Roles Conceptualization

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Nursing, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Jennifer A. Wagman

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jennwagman@ucla.edu

  Current address: Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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