Health Equity and Birth: The Accessibility of Indigenous Midwifery and Birth Workers in Canadian Healthcare
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter examines the intersections of health equity, birthing, and Indigeneity in present-day Canada, outlining the current state of midwifery healthcare policy, with a specific focus on policies and measures intended to increase Indigenous selfdetermination in relation to childbirth. At the same time, it presents a decolonial approach to midwifery and doula practices as a means to address and counteract systemic discrimination against Indigenous women and gender diverse individuals within healthcare systems. A postcolonial lens is employed to highlight prospective initiatives aimed at reviving Indigenous birthing traditions and regaining authority over reproductive health. This chapter also highlights policy reforms and healthcare practices that prioritize Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, as well as increased governmental support for Indigenous midwives and doulas.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it