Stewardship and Managed Care

Rl, Goldman; Dunn, Rose T; Dl, Weinberg

doi:10.1300/j043v12n02_01

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“…Identifying refugee women either through their obstetricians'/family practitioners'/midwives' offices or at their first trimester ultrasound was also considered. However, we felt that many women might be overlooked for participation given that the data available on immigrant women generally suggests health services under-utilization [73] and the single report identified of pregnant refugee women en route to Canada noted that they received health care late in their pregnancies [44]. Recruitment on the postpartum unit has been successful in the past and has been put forward as an acceptable and valid approach to consider for population-based research [74]; this procedure was successfully used in our previous work.…”

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The childbearing health and related service needs of newcomers (CHARSNN) study protocol

Gagnon

Wahoush

Dougherty

et al. 2006

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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Background: Refugee and asylum-seeking women in Canada may have significant harmful childbearing health outcomes and unmet health and social care needs. The most vulnerable of these women are: those who have left their countries by force (e.g., war, rape or abuse histories), are separated from their families, have limited knowledge of the host country languages, and are visible minorities. Asylum-seekers face additional stresses related to their unknown future status and are marginalized with regards to access to provincial health care systems. The prevalence and severity of health issues in this population is not known nor is the extent of response from social service and health care systems (including variation in provincial service delivery). Understanding the magnitude of health and social concerns of newcomers requires data from a representative sample of childbearing refugee and asylum-seeking women resettling in Canada to permit comparisons to be made with non-refugee immigrant and Canadian-born women. Our research questions are: (1) Do refugee or asylum-seeking women and their infants, experience a greater number or a different distribution of harmful health events during pregnancy, at birth, and during the postpartum period than non-refugee immigrant or Canadian-born women? (2) Are the harmful health events experienced postpartum by asylum-seeking women and their infants, addressed less often (compared to refugees, non-refugee immigrants, and Canadian-born women) by the Canadian health care system as delivered in each of the three major receiving cities for newcomers?

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confidence: 99%