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Article: Aboriginal women badly served by health care. (Health).
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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Aboriginal women across Canada are facing problems accessing health care, due in part to system's inability to address cultural and language issues.
Recent studies commissioned by the Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (ACEWH) show shortcomings in health care provision for Aboriginal women--as well as immigrant, refugee and minority women--living in Atlantic Canada.
The research highlights three major obstacles to providing health care to these marginalized women, including the health care system's lack of understanding about how some diseases affect different ethnic groups, and the lack of culturally appropriate treatment alternatives ...