Improving access to Indigenous medicine for patients in hospital-based settings: a challenge for health systems in northern Canada

In this commentary, we argue that Indigenous patients in the Northwest Territories (NWT) have a right to access traditional medicine and related practitioners as a part of the continuum of medical care. Indigenous people make up over half of the NWT population, spread over vast geographic areas with...

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Main Authors: Nicole Redvers, Justina Marianayagam, Be’sha Blondin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-01-01
Series:International Journal of Circumpolar Health
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2019.1577093