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A call for action that cannot go to voicemail: Research activism to urgently improve Indigenous perinatal health and wellbeing

Elsevier, Women and Birth, Volume 34, July 2021
Authors
Hickey S., Roe Y., Ireland S., Kildea S., Haora P., Gao Y. et al.

In this call to action, a coalition of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, United States and Canada argue for the urgent need for adequately funded Indigenous-led solutions to perinatal health inequities for Indigenous families in well-resourced settler-colonial countries. Authors describe examples of successful community-driven programs making a difference and call on all peoples to support and resource Indigenous-led perinatal health services by providing practical actions for individuals and different groups.