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