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2. How Indigenous mothers experience selecting and using early childhood development services to care for their infants.
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Wright, Amy L., Jack, Susan M., Ballantyne, Marilyn, Gabel, Chelsea, Bomberry, Rachel, and Wahoush, Olive
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MEDICAL policy laws ,CHILD development ,COMMUNITY health services ,EXPERIENCE ,HEALTH promotion ,HEALTH services accessibility ,HOLISTIC medicine ,HOME care services ,INDIGENOUS peoples ,INTERVIEWING ,MATHEMATICAL models ,RESEARCH methodology ,MEDICAL care ,MEDICAL personnel ,MOTHERS ,PSYCHOLOGY ,RESEARCH funding ,TRANSCULTURAL medical care ,QUALITATIVE research ,JUDGMENT sampling ,CULTURAL identity ,ATTITUDES of mothers ,PATIENTS' families - Abstract
Purpose: Promoting a child's healthy growth and development in the first six years of life is critical to their later health and well-being. Indigenous infants experience poorer health outcomes than non-Indigenous infants, yet little is understood about how parents access and use health services to optimize their infants' growth and development. Exploring the experiences of Indigenous mothers who select and use early childhood development (ECD) services provides important lessons into how best to promote their access and use of health services. Methods: This qualitative interpretive description study was guided by the Two-Eyed Seeing framework and included interviews with 19 Indigenous mothers of infants less than two years of age and 7 providers of ECD services. Results: Mainstream (public) and Indigenous-led health promotion programs both promoted the access and use of services while Indigenous-led programs further demonstrated an ability to provide culturally safe and trauma and violence-informed care. Conclusions: Providers of Indigenous-led services are best suited to deliver culturally safe care for Indigenous mothers and infants. Providers of mainstream services, however, supported by government policies and funding, can better meet the needs of Indigenous mothers and infants by providing cultural safe and trauma and violence-informed care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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3. Indigenous mothers' experiences of using primary care in Hamilton, Ontario, for their infants.
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Wright, Amy L., Jack, Susan M., Ballantyne, Marilyn, Gabel, Chelsea, Bomberry, Rachel, and Wahoush, Olive
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CHILDREN'S health ,HEALTH services accessibility ,INDIGENOUS peoples ,INTERVIEWING ,RESEARCH methodology ,MEDICAL care ,METROPOLITAN areas ,MOTHERS ,PRIMARY health care ,RESEARCH funding ,STATISTICAL sampling ,QUALITATIVE research ,JUDGMENT sampling ,THEMATIC analysis ,ATTITUDES of mothers - Abstract
Purpose: Access to primary care can help mitigate the negative impacts of social inequity that disproportionately affect Indigenous people in Canada. Despite this, however, Indigenous people cite difficulties accessing care. This study seeks to understand how Indigenous mothers—typically responsible for the health of their infants—living in urban areas, experience selecting and using health services to meet the health needs of their infants. Results provide strategies to improve access to care, which may lead to improved health outcomes for Indigenous infants and their families. Methods: This qualitative interpretive description study is guided by the Two-Eyed Seeing framework. Interviews were conducted with 19 Indigenous mothers and 5 primary care providers. Results: The experiences of Indigenous mothers using primary care for their infants resulted in eight themes. Themes were organized according to three domains of primary care: structural, organizational and personnel. Conclusions: Primary care providers can develop contextual-awareness to better recognize and respond to the health and well-being of Indigenous families. Applying culturally safe, trauma and violence-informed and family-centred approaches to care can promote equitable access and positive health care interactions which may lead to improved health outcomes for Indigenous infants and their families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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4. Ontario Healthcare Coverage Eligibility Among New Permanent Residents: A Scoping Review.
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Bobadilla, Andrea, Orchard, Treena, Magalhães, Lilian, and Fitzsimmons, Deborah
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MEDICAL care ,PERMANENT residents (Immigrants) ,MEDICAL care laws ,PUBLIC health ,MEDICAL care costs - Abstract
New permanent residents to Ontario can experience difficulties accessing health services due to the 3-month residency requirement for provincial healthcare coverage. This scoping literature review, which included peer-reviewed articles and gray literature from 1993-2013, examined the effects of the 3-month waiting period on the health of new permanent residents to Ontario, public health, and the health-care system. At the individual level, issues of affordability, pre-existing conditions, and quality of care were prominent throughout the literature. At a systems level, the policy was found to constrain various health-care settings, pose a risk to public health, and compound health-care system costs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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