Barriers like racism, distrust may be main cause of health-care disparities for Indigenous women, study says

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Just before Tina Campbell had a minor medical procedure recently, she remembered the discrimination she says she felt while trying to access health care nearly two decades ago. 

“When I was getting ready, I was thinking I’ve got to look nice, be presentable, because I don’t want to be treated differently,” Campbell said.

“That’s something that I had shared with my non-Indigenous friends, and they were kind of like, ‘Wow, I never even thought about that.'”

Campbell, who is from the Mosakahiken Cree Nation in northern Manitoba, is a registered nurse with the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority in Prince Albert, Sask. and is working to

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