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OCLC number
1019471846
Author
Payne, Lauren E.
Title
Toward the development of culturally safe birth models among Northern First Nations : the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre experience.
Degree
M.P.H. -- Simon Fraser University, 2010
Publisher
Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 2014.
Description
microfiches
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
<?Pub Inc> This paper presents the approach taken by the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre (SLMHC) to improve maternal and newborn care for First Nations peoples in Northwestern Ontario. I use a cultural safety lens to explore whether the SLMHC's focus on birthing meanings, beliefs, attitudes, and practices as described by elders may contribute to the development of a more culturally safe hospital birth model. Findings suggest that a transcultural approach aimed at understanding and involving birthing beliefs, practices, and meanings into the health care setting is a necessary aspect of returning control back to the community and is thus an important preliminary step in achieving cultural safety in the clinical realm. In areas in which health and social challenges prevent women from giving birth in their home communities, efforts such as the SLMHC initiative should be made to ensure that existing health care settings are more culturally safe.
ISBN
9780499235831
0499235835