Exploring why and how encounters with the Norwegian health-care system can be considered culturally unsafe by North Sami-speaking patients and relatives: A qualitative study based on 11 interviews.

Grete Mehus Berit Andersdatter BongoJanne Isaksen EngnesPertice M Moffitt

Published in: International journal of circumpolar health (2020)

Culturally safe practices at the institutional, group and individual levels are essential to the well-being of Sami people. An engagement in culturally safe practices will facilitate (or) fulfil political and jurisdictional promises made to the Sami people, consequently improving positive impact of healthcare.

Keyphrases

healthcare
end stage renal disease
primary care
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
social media