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Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice
Family home visitor; Health services accessibility; Home-based family services; Language and medicine; Language barrier; Linguistic minorities – Medical care; Maternal health services; Minority women – Medical care; Postpartum depression; Pre- and postnatal services; Prenatal care; Trust
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Family Home Visitors: Increasing Minority Women’S Access To Health Services, Mechthild Meyer, Alma R. Estable, Lynne Maclean, Wendy E. Peterson
Family Home Visitors: Increasing Minority Women’S Access To Health Services, Mechthild Meyer, Alma R. Estable, Lynne Maclean, Wendy E. Peterson
Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice
The article describes how service access barriers (language, trust) were addressed at different levels (organization, service provider, community) by involving Family Home Visitors to support Nurse Practitioners in providing pre- and postnatal services to linguistic minority women in Ontario. The investigators undertook a secondary analysis of 18 semi-structured interviews with health unit informants, Nurse Practitioners, program users, and community leaders, including Family Home Visitors. Health units facilitated collaboration between two programs aimed at serving mothers with young children, resulting in both programs using Family Home Visitors. They enhanced minority women’s trust in Nurse Practitioner services by providing interpretation, outreach and …