Articles

• Editorial: What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality Among Aboriginal Populations?
  Author: Zhong-Cheng Luo
  
  
• Indigenous Birth Outcomes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States - an Overview.
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  Authors: Janet Smylie, Sue Crengle, Jane Freemantle, Maile Taualii
  
  
• Individual- and Community-Level Disparities in Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among First Nations, Inuit and Other Populations in Quebec.
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  Authors: Fabienne Simonet, Spogmai Wassimi, Maureen Heaman, Janet Smylie, Patricia Martens, Nancy G.L. Mchugh, Elena Labranche, Russell Wilkins, William D. Fraser, Zhong-Cheng Luo
  
  
• Urban Living is Not Associated with Better Birth and Infant Outcomes among Inuit and First Nations in Quebec.
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  Authors: Fabienne Simonet, Russell Wilkins, Maureen Heaman, Janet Smylie, Patricia Martens, Nancy G.L. Mchugh, Elena Labranche, Spogmai Wassimi, William D. Fraser, Zhong-Cheng Luo
  

• Nursing in Nunavut – Part II: Great Expectations in Prenatal Care

          Canadian Nurse: June 2009   (by subscription)  

• Primary birthing attendants and birth outcomes in remote Inuit communities - a natural "experiment" in Nunavik, Canada
  Journal of Epidemiol Community Health
  
  
• “Reclaiming Birth, Health, and Community: Midwifery in the Inuit Villages of Nunavik, Canada” 

Authors: Vicki Van Wagner, RM, Brenda Epoo, Julie Nastapoka, and Evelyn Harnery, BA, SM

Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, Vol. 52, No. 4, July/August 2007

• "The Outcome of Perinatal Care in Inukjuak,

  Nunavik, Canada 1998 - 2002."
  Authors: Houd, S., J. Qinuajuak, and B. Epoo, in International Journal of Circumpolar Health

  
  

• "To Watch, To Care": Stories of Aboriginal Midwifery in Canada.
  Author: Cecilia Benoit et al
  Canadian Journal of Midwifery Research and Practice
  
  

• Allow midwives to participate as full members of the healthcare team   
  English | Inuktitut (go to June 2006 issue)
  Author: Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, 2006
  
  
• A systematic review of the nature of support for breast-feeding adolescent mothers
  Journal: Midwifery, June 2007
  
  
• Examining Midwifery-based Options to Improve Continuity of Maternity Care Services in Remote Nunavut Communities
  Authors: Sara Tedford Gold, John O'Neil and Vicki van Wagner
  
  
• Childbirth among the Canadian Inuit: A review of the clinical and cultural literature
  Author: Vasiliki K. Douglas, International Journal of Circumpolar Health
  
  
• Bringing Birth Back to the Community: Midwifery in the Inuit villages of Nunavik
  Authors: Brenda Epoo and Vicki van Wagner