Indigenous Doulas: A literature review exploring their role and practice in western maternity care.

CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: The role and practice of Indigenous doulas offers a promising approach to redressing the colonisation of Indigenous childbirth while contributing to improving Indigenous maternal and infant outcomes. Indigenous doula practice shares many best-practice characteristics with Indigenous Healing Programs and as such is also likely to also promote inter-generational healing. Most of the resources located were descriptive, but this emergent topic is worthy of further applied research. PMID: 31003022 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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