UPDATE: In my original headline for this post, I wrote “71% of all recent infant deaths in BC were Aboriginal: Report.” This was unintentionally misleading on my part. In fact, as Neil Edmondson rightly points out via Twitter, “It wasn’t all recent infant deaths, just 71% of [the] 21 [infants] selected for study.” In my […]
Very cool piece in the New York Times on how one small, indigenous-run, hospital in Tuba City, Arizona, has “outperform[ed] richer, more prestigious institutions when it comes to keeping Caesarean rates down, which saves money and is better for many mothers and infants.” The article partly attributes the success of the Tuba City Regional Health […]
Hooray! When Canada seizes control of the agenda at the next G8 meeting, Stephen Harper is making the health of women and children a priority! He said so in a Toronto Star opinion piece last month: There is a pressing need for global action on maternal and child health. As president of the G8 in 2010, […]
