Let this be a safe place: a qualitative study into midwifery care for forcibly displaced women in the Netherlands
To enhance the provision of equitable pregnancy and childbirth care for forcibly displaced women in the Netherlands, it is crucial to target the imbalance between the responsibilities that midwives bear and the resources available to them. This requires dismantling barriers at the interactional, organizational and contextual level of care through targeted policy interventions. Structural determinants that perpetuate the imbalance in midwives' work and restrict their scope of influence, such as restrictive migration policies that contribute to socioeconomic marginalization and poor housing conditions, need to be addressed. Ultimately, midwives themselves require more support and education to recognize and combat injustices in pregnancy and childbirth care for forcibly displaced women.
Authors
- Johanna P. de Graaf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2354-9744)
- Peggy J. A. van der Lans
- Maria van den Muijsenbergh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4994-4008)
- Esther Feijen‐de Jong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5766-296X)
- Arie Franx (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-5546)
- A. E. H. Verschuuren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8954-4850)
- J. B. Tankink (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0994-2194)
- B. Goodarzi
Institutions
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- University of Groningen (NL)
- Erasmus MC (NL)
- Radboud University Medical Center (NL)
- Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing (NL)
- GGD Amsterdam (NL)
- Amsterdam University Medical Centers (NL)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Health Services Research
- Published
- 2024-11-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11852-w
- Primary Topic
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- ZonMw
- Universiteit van Amsterdam