Health Equity
The Health Equity Area of Excellence (AoE) provides leadership in the creation of a community of scholars within the Faculty of Nursing that foster discourse and inquiry to examine issues related to social determinants of health as conditions for social advantage/ disadvantage and systematic disparities in health.
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Health inequities experienced by Aboriginal children with respiratory problems and their parents.
Download2012
Bourque Bearskin, L., Masuda, J., Stewart, M., Blood, R., King, M., Letourneau, N., Anderson, S.
Asthma and allergies are common conditions among Aboriginal children and adolescents. The purpose of this study was to assess the health and health-care inequities experienced by affected children and by their parents. Aboriginal research assistants conducted individual interviews with 46...
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Food choices and practices during pregnancy of immigrant women with high-risk pregnancies in Canada: a pilot study
Download2014
Higginbottom, Gina, Barolia, Rubina, Forgeron, Joan, Mamede, Fabiana, Vallianatos, Helen, Gibbons, Donna
Background Immigrant women may be regarded as a vulnerable population with respect to access and navigation of maternity care services. They may encounter difficulties when accessing culturally safe and appropriate maternity care, which may be further exacerbated by language difficulties and...
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Barriers, motivators and facilitators related to prenatal care utilization among inner-city women in Winnipeg, Canada: a case–control study
Download2014-10-20
Morris, Heather, Moffatt, Michael, Elliott, Lawrence, Cook, Catherine, Gregory, Patricia, Sword, Wendy, Tjaden, Lynda, Heaman, Maureen I., Helewa, Michael E.
Background: The reasons why women do not obtain prenatal care even when it is available and accessible are complex. Despite Canada’s universally funded health care system, use of prenatal care varies widely across neighborhoods in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with the highest rates of inadequate prenatal...
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Comparing the feasibility, acceptability, clinical-, and cost-effectiveness of mental health e-screening to paper-based screening on the detection of depression, anxiety, and psychosocial risk in pregnant women: A study protocol of a randomized, parallel-group, superiority trial.
Download2014
Sword, W., Ohinmaa, A., Lasiuk, G., Giallo, R., Kingston, D., van Zanten, S., Biringer, A., Austin, M., Hegadoren, K., Lane-Smith, M., McDonald, S., MacQueen, G.
Background Stress, depression, and anxiety affect 15% to 25% of pregnant women. However, substantial barriers to psychosocial assessment exist, resulting in less than 20% of prenatal care providers assessing and treating mental health problems. Moreover, pregnant women are often reluctant to...
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2014
Conroy, Sherrill A., Murray, Cynthia L.
Low maternal, gestational weight gain is associated with preterm birth, intrauterine growth restriction, low birthweight, small-for-gestational-age infants, neural tube defects, infant death, failure to initiate breastfeeding, and childhood asthma. The advantage of qualitative research is it can...
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An integrated web-based mental health intervention of assessment-referral-care to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression in hospitalized pregnant women with medically high-risk pregnancies: a feasibility study protocol of hospital-based implementation
Download2015
Moyo, Nomagugu, Janes-Kelley, Selikke, Mcdonald, Sheila, Kingston, Dawn, Tyrrell, Janie, Hamza, Deena, Holmes, Penny, Parkes, Cheryl, Clark, Lorna, Austin, Marie-Paule
Background: At prevalence rates of up to 40%, rates of depression and anxiety among women with medically complex pregnancies are 3 times greater than those in community-based samples of pregnant women. However, mental health care is not a component of routine hospital-based antenatal care for...
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Factors influencing the adolescent pregnancy rate in the Greater Giyani Municipality, Limpopo Province - South Africa
Download2015
Muller, Helene, Monareng, Lydia, Mushwana, Lenny, Richter, Solina
A quantitative, descriptive and explorative survey was conducted to determine factors that influence adolescent pregnancy rate among teenage girls (n = 147) attending four high schools in the Greater Giyani Municipality in South Africa. Data was collected using a validated questionnaire which had...