Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, January 2010, pp. 32-38
Description
Determines there is a need for more effective perinatal and infant care programs in remote First Nations communities to reduce mortality rates.
Discusses traditional practices, medicalization of childbirth, including evacuation of women, and current and future status of midwifery. Includes results of literature search and key informant interviews.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol. 63, no. 7, July 2009, pp. 546-551
Description
Examined outcomes from the 14 communities in Nunavik for the period of 1989 to 2000. Compared results from the Hudson Bay area, where Inuit midwives perform maternity care, to Ungava Bay area where western physicians performed the same function.
Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, vol. 52, no. 4, July-August 2007, pp. 384-391
Description
Describes how the community-based midwifery service is providing the option, for women, to give birth within their remote community rather than have to be evacuated out.
Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine, vol. 19, no. 4, 2014, pp. 128-133
Description
Concerns by the midwives in the region include unhealthy behaviours in young women, the decline of traditional beliefs particularly during pregnancy, and nutritional deficiencies.