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Rates of breast feeding and associated factors for First Nations infants in a hospital with a culturally specific caseload midwifery model in Victoria, Australia: a cohort study

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By Helen L. McLachlan, Pamela McCalman, Tanisha Springall, Della Anne Forster
| BMJ Open Verified
Data management and analysis Data were entered into REDcap and imported into STATA V.1722 for cleaning and analysis. Data cleaning included checking for missing data, range and logic checks. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics, and presented as frequencies, and percentages for categorical variables and means and SD for continuous variables (or median and range where data were not normally distributed).
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More First Nations midwives needed

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By Pamela McCalman, Machellee Kosiak
| latrobe.edu.au
And First Nations infants are almost twice as likely to die in the first month of life (16% vs 9% per 1,000), with preterm birth the biggest cause of mortality. The causes of these gaps in life expectancy are complex and stem from colonisation, including: racism and lack of cultural safety in hospitals and from healthcare providers pregnant First Nations women avoiding antenatal care for fear of child protection services taking their children.
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First Nations mothers are more likely to die during childbirth. More First Nations midwives could close this gap

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By Pamela McCalman, Catherine Chamberlain, Machellee Kosiak
| The Conversation Verified
While Australia is one of the safest places in the world to give birth, First Nations women are three times more likely to die in childbirth than other Australian women (17.5 vs 5.5 per 100,000 women from 2012-2019). And First Nations infants are almost twice as likely to die in the first month of life (16% vs 9% per 1,000), with preterm birth the biggest cause of mortality.
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