Phys.org

Indigenous health training is a journey, not a check-box

Learning to provide safe, culturally sensitive health care for Indigenous patients is a journey, not a check box. This is according to Lloy Wylie, Ph.D., and Stephanie McConkey, whose research has ...

New training aims to make P.E.I. health care safer for Indigenous patients

P.E.I. nurses and midwives will soon be required to complete Indigenous cultural safety training aimed at improving the ...
Medical Xpress

What indigenous women globally think of birth care and what they'd like to see instead

Pregnancy and having a baby can be a special time. And families want to feel safe and trust their maternity care. We found similar themes in research involving more than 1,400 Indigenous women, Elders ...
Fred Hutch

Fred Hutch receives funding to advance Indigenous cancer health equity

Fred Hutch Cancer Center’s Lonnie A. Nelson, PhD; Jason Mendoza, MD, MPH; and Myra Parker, JD, MPH, PhD, were awarded a U19 cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Minority Health and ...
Today

Indigenous doulas are helping Native moms take back their health after centuries of discrimination

Hospital staff is always quick to notice when there’s a Hummingbird in the facility. If the doctors and nurses have been through this before, they know the birthing team tending to the pregnant ...

RFDS joins Mornington Island Aboriginal health organisation in Australian-first partnership

The first partnership of its kind in Australia is bringing the Royal Flying Doctor Service to a remote Aboriginal Gulf island ...

Indigenous knowledge key to building healthier and more sustainable food systems

Traditional and Indigenous knowledge could play a vital role in addressing some of the world's most pressing challenges, ...
USA Today

Native Americans given promise of health care. For rural moms, it's an empty one.

Part 2 of a four-part USA TODAY project examining the lack of maternal health care in America's rural communities of color. On Christmas night at her family’s home on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, ...

Nearly two-thirds of Indigenous people report mistreatment during childbirth: study

Nearly two-thirds of Indigenous people who took part in a national study on perinatal care reported experiencing mistreatment ...

Tailoring communication with Aboriginal people to improve diabetes self-management

Globally, the number of people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) is escalating. In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
Medscape

Indigenous Mexicans With Diabetic Foot Face Delays in Care

In rural areas of Mexico, Indigenous patients with diabetes who have few economic resources face obstacles that delay proper care. Patients with complications of diabetes such as diabetic foot are in ...
The New York Times

After Video of Abusive Nurse, Canada’s Indigenous Seek Health Overhaul

The abuse last year of an Indigenous woman in a Quebec hospital has prompted outrage and underlined the discrimination facing Canada’s Indigenous community. Joyce Echaquan’s grave in Manawan cemetery ...