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“The support has been brilliant”: experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients attending two high performing cancer services

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Improving health outcomes for Indigenous people by providing person-centred, culturally safe care is a crucial challenge for the health sector, both in Australia and internationally.
Emma V. Taylor, Marilyn Lyford, Michele Holloway, Lorraine Parsons, Toni Mason, Sabe Sabesan, Sandra C. Thompson   +6 more
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Successes and challenges of speech language therapy service provision in Western Kenya: Three case studies

South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: The need for communication-related services in sub-Saharan Africa to support individuals experiencing communication disability is a longstanding and well-documented situation.
Bea Staley, Ellen Hickey, David Rochus, Duncan Musasizi, Rachael Gibson   +4 more
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Rethinking health services measurement for Indigenous populations

Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 2019
Indigenous people around the world experience shorter life expectancy, poorer health outcomes, and on average have less social capital, than non-Indigenous people in their respective countries. While national goals are to lower mortality and morbidity rates of Indigenous people, much evidence exists that indicates there is almost no Indigenous ...
Mashford-Pringle, Angela, Ring, Ian T, Al-Yaman, Fadwa, Waldon, John A, Chino, Michelle   +4 more
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"We're very much part of the team here":  A culture of respect for Indigenous health workforce transforms Indigenous health care.

PLoS ONE, 2020
BackgroundImproving health outcomes for Indigenous people by strengthening the cultural safety of care is a vital challenge for the health sector, both in Australia and internationally.
Emma V Taylor, Marilyn Lyford, Lorraine Parsons, Toni Mason, Sabe Sabesan, Sandra C Thompson   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

"Now he walks and walks, as if he didn't have a home where he could eat": food, healing, and hunger in Quechua narratives of madness [PDF]

, 2013
In the Quechua-speaking peasant communities of southern Peru, mental disorder is understood less as individualized pathology and more as a disturbance in family and social relationships. For many Andeans, food and feeding are ontologically fundamental to
A Topor, Alison Krogel, Anna Meigs, Bianca Brijnath, Carlos Larrea, Carole M Counihan, Catherine J Allen, Catherine J Allen, Christine Greenway, Constance Classen, David M. R. Orr, David MR Orr, Derek Summerfield, Derek Summerfield, Duncan Pedersen, Elizabeth Cartwright, Emily Yates-Doerr, Gaithri A Fernando, Hermilio Valdizán, Irene Silverblatt, Javier Saavedra, Judith K Bass, Katherine Sohrsdahl, Krista E Vleet van, Laurence J Kirmayer, Lesley Jo Weaver, Libbet Crandon-Malamud, Mary Weismantel, Mary Weismantel, María Tapias, Michael Goddard, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Neely Laurenzo Myers, Parin Dossa, Peter Gose, Sarah Lund Skar, Sharon Alane Abramowitz, Susan Elizabeth Ramirez, Ursula Read, WHO, Xavier Ricard Lanata   +40 more
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Integrating traditional indigenous medicine and western biomedicine into health systems: a review of Nicaraguan health policies and miskitu health services

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2015
Throughout the world, indigenous peoples have advocated for the right to retain their cultural beliefs and traditional medicine practices. In 2007, the more than 370 million people representing 5000 distinct groups throughout the world received global ...
Heather Carrie, T. Mackey, Sloane N. Laird   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluation of a school-based health education program for urban Indigenous young people in Australia [PDF]

, 2014
: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a school-based health promotion and education program in improving knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy and behaviours of urban Indigenous young people regarding chronic disease and ...
Alison Nelson, Claire Malseed, Robert Ware   +2 more
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Maternal perceptions of childhood vaccination: explanations of reasons for and against vaccination

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Understanding reasons for and against vaccination from the parental perspective is critical for designing vaccination campaigns and informing other interventions to increase vaccination uptake in Canada.
Deborah A. McNeil, Melissa Mueller, Shannon MacDonald, Sheila McDonald, Vineet Saini, James D. Kellner, Suzanne Tough   +6 more
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Providing health services to indigenous peoples

BMJ, 2003
A combination of conventional services and indigenous programmes is needed Although indigenous health is influenced by many factors outside the formal health sector, access to quality health services is none the less an important determinant of good health.1 In New Zealand, efforts to improve Maori health have resulted in substantial shifts across ...
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[Ethnic disparities in the use of reproductive health services by indigenous and African-descendant Colombian women].

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2015
The aim of this study in Colombia was to analyze the use of reproductive health services (prenatal care, childbirth, and postpartum) according to women's ethnicity, based on the National Demographic and Health Survey for 2010. Ethnicity was self-reported
Camilo Noreña-Herrera, Rene Leyva-Flores, L. S. Palacio-Mejía, María Beatriz Duarte-Gómez   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source