Conceptualizing risk for pregnant Indigenous peoples accessing maternity care in Canada: A critical interpretive synthesis

In Canada, Indigenous Peoples living in northern, rural, and/or remote communities are evacuated for birth to hospitals based on beliefs within the Euro-Canadian biomedical model, which does not consider risk in a wholistic manner and overemphasizes biomedical risks like preeclampsia, hypertension,...

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Main Authors: Sarah Durant, Arthi Erika Jeyamohan, Erika Campbell, Karen Lawford
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-01-01
Series:Social Sciences and Humanities Open
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291123003789