Enhancing health care equity with Indigenous populations: evidence-based strategies from an ethnographic study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-17

  Browne, Annette J ^a   Varcoe, Colleen ^a   Lavoie, Josée ^b   Smye, Victoria ^c   Wong, Sabrina T ^a   Krause, Murry ^d   Tu, David ^a   Godwin, Olive ^e   Khan, Koushambhi ^a   Fridkin, Alycia ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b John Buhler Research Centre   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^d Central Interior Native Health Society   (Canada)

^e Prince George Division of Family Practice   (Canada)

^f PROVINCIAL HEALTH SERVICES AUTHORITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Cultural safety; Discrimination; Health disparities; Health equity; Health services; Indigenous people; Racism; Structural violence; Trauma informed care; Trauma and violence informed care

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH EQUITY; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; RACISM; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRUST; VIOLENCE;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CANADA; CULTURE; EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE; HEALTH EQUITY; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; RACISM; TRUST; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84990864927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-016-1707-9     Document Type: Article

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