Barriers like racism, distrust may be main cause of health-care disparities for Indigenous women, study says – CBC
National study quantifying health-care inequities is 1st of its kind, lead author says
Aug 28, 2023
Just before Tina Campbell had a minor medical procedure recently, she remembered the discrimination she says she felt while trying to access health care nearly two decades ago.
“When I was getting ready, I was thinking I’ve got to look nice, be presentable, because I don’t want to be treated differently,” Campbell said.
“That’s something that I had shared with my non-Indigenous friends, and they were kind of like, ‘Wow, I never even thought about that.'”
Campbell, who is from the Mosakahiken Cree Nation in northern Manitoba, is a registered nurse with the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority in Prince Albert, Sask. and is working to provide culturally safe care for Indigenous people in the region.
Her role addresses a health-care inequity problem that researchers and Indigenous people say persists across Canada and was quantified in a study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/indigenous-women-health-care-inequities-1.6949274
