ReviewInternational journal of circumpolar health2022
Returning childbirth to inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic.
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- Costs of medical evacuation and transportation of First Nations Peoples and Inuit who travel for medical care in Canada: A systematic review.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025Pooled it
- Inunngorfik - connection to land, inuit culture and giving birth in Kalaallit Nunaat: pregnant women's and their families' perspectives on the centralization of delivery services.International journal of circumpolar health · 2026Article
- Naapinneq: strengthening Inuit maternal and child health through gathering Inuit from Kalaallit Nunaat and Nunavut.International journal of circumpolar health · 2026Article
- Racism in Inuit experiences in healthcare: findings from an environmental scan.International journal of circumpolar health · 2026Review
- Inuit Women's Voices from Nunavut, Canada: Informing Perinatal Support Needs and Priorities.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Aeromedical evacuations in the Canadian North: does the presence of a physician alter rates?International journal of circumpolar health · 2025Article
- Indigenous Peoples' responses to evacuation for birth in Ontario: conceptualizing risk through an Indigenous midwifery-led approach.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- Inuit mental health service utilisation in Manitoba: results from the qanuinngitsiarutiksait study.International journal of circumpolar health · 2024Article
- Cross-jurisdictional pandemic management: providers speaking on the experience of Nunavut Inuit accessing services in Manitoba during the COVID-19 pandemic.International journal of circumpolar health · 2023Article
- Giving birth in rural ArcticInternational journal of circumpolar health · 2022Article
- Kivalliq Inuit women travelling to Manitoba for birthing: findings from the Qanuinngitsiarutiksait study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Experiences of Canadian perinatal care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of open-ended survey responses.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
While Inuit living in Nunavut have been advocating for decades for the return of birthing to their own communities, over two-third of births continue to occur outside of the territory. We conducted a literature review to answer the question, why has birthplace choice not been given back to Inuit yet. Based on our review we identified a number of factors impacting birthplace choice, including the organisation of the Nunavut medical system that is focused on primary health care and that cannot easily accommodate the potential clinical risks Western health care associates with birthing, often in isolation from socio-cultural risks; staffing vacancies and turn over in Nunavut, which creates challenges in continuity of care and in maintaining trust; and trends in Canada towards the medicalisation of birthing, which resulted in the displacement of traditional midwifery, and lately in the professionalisation of midwifery with training centres mostly located outside of Nunavut. We recognise that providing more options to birth in the north is complex. While birthing in the north as an option is a given objective, operationalising this objective in a consistent manner is likely going to be a challenge for years to come.
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