Nicole S Berry
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 128346 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nicole S Berry |
| PRENOMES | Nicole S |
| SOBRENOME | Berry |
| ASSINATURA | BERRY N S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6566-6768 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
DIY global health
Privatization of maternal care and women’s access to quality healthcare
This study critically examines how the unregulated expansion of private healthcare, coupled with health-system challenges such as corruption, and lack of monitoring and accountability, affects women’s experiences of obtaining healthcare in Bangladesh. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews with 31 female patients, 28 biomedical providers, and 12 health administrators and policymakers, we found that the absence of effective regulation, supervisi…
Associations of Indigenous language knowledge and physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual balance among First Nations living on reserve in British Columbia, Canada
In age/sex-adjusted models, Indigenous language knowledge acted as a proxy for multiple cultural activities theoretically downstream from reclamation and promoters of cultural wellness. Our results are consistent with First Nations cultural activities promoting spiritual balance in this population
“When I came to Canada, I almost forgot myself
For young women, im/migration can impact education, employment, and family dynamics in ways that shape the courses of their lives and health. The purpose of this study is to deepen understandings of how im/migration shapes young women's experiences of pregnancy, motherhood, and marriage. Guided by intersectionality theory and the structural and social determinants of health, we analyzed qualitative interviews conducted with young im/migrants ages…
Sex, Immigration, and Patterns of Access to Primary Care in Canada
Access to primary care is crucial to immigrant health and may be shaped by sex and gender, but research is limited and inconclusive. We identified measures that reflect access to primary care using 2015-2018 Canadian Community Health Survey data. We used multivariable logistic regression models to estimate adjusted odds of primary care access and to explore interaction effects between sex and immigration group (recent immigrant: < 10 years in Can…
Unsafe Motherhood
"[S]heds light not only on the obstacles to making motherhood safer, but to improving the health of poor populations in general."-Social Anthropology Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying from pregnancy-related causes, little progress has been made to combat this problem. This study follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to dec…
Improving HIV medication adherence among forced migrants living with HIV
A regular status shapes participants' adherence to HIV medications. Group-based interventions to support refugees are needed
It's not just about being here, but what brought you here”
This qualitative study aimed to understand how migration experiences shape im/migrant women's needs, desire for, and expectations of healthcare in the British Columbia (BC), Canada context. Interviews with 33 im/migrant women (December 2018-January 2020) highlighted that traumatic experiences across migration increased healthcare needs; insufficient prior health system information contributed to poor experiences; and comparative healthcare experi…
Relationships to land as a determinant of wellness for Indigenous women, two-spirit, trans, and gender diverse people of reproductive age in Toronto, Canada
Our findings indicate that among urban Indigenous women, two-spirit, trans, and gender diverse people of reproductive age there is a positive association between feeling strong in their relationships to land and feeling balanced in the four domains of health (physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional). The community-based, community-directed design of OHC Toronto was congruent with a reproductive justice approach to research. Reproductive justic…
The Resettlement Experiences of Oromo Women Who Entered Canada as Refugees
A growing body of literature shows that gender-based experiences produce different circumstances for men and women who become refugees and thereafter. This article sought to contribute to this literature by investigating the challenges faced by Oromo women who have immigrated to Canada as refugees. Toward this end, we interviewed six Oromo women in Western Canada regarding what led them to leave Ethiopia, their experiences as refugees seeking asy…
Emergent Waithood
Using an ethics of care lens to understand the place of community health workers in Rwanda's maternal healthcare system
Facilitating equitable community-level access to maternal health services
Rwanda's maternal CHWs are heavily responsible for promoting equitable access to maternal health services. Consequently, they may be required to use their own resources for their practice, which could jeopardize their own socio-economic welfare and capacity to meet the demands of their families. Considering the unpaid and untrained nature of this position, we highlight the factors that threaten the sustainability of CHWs' role to facilitate equit…
A critical examination of empowerment discourse in medical tourism
BACKGROUND: Medical tourism is a term used to describe the phenomenon of individuals intentionally traveling across national borders to privately purchase medical care. The medical tourism industry has been portrayed in the media as an "escape valve" providing alternative care options as a result of vast economic asymmetries between the global north and global south and the flexible regulatory environment in which care is provided to medical tour…
“I beg you…breastfeed the baby, things changed”
WLWH face layered challenges navigating evolving infant feeding recommendations. Further research is needed to examine guidance and decision-making on infant feeding choices to improve postpartum experiences and outcomes. Improved communication about changes to recommendations is needed for WLWH, their partners, community members, and healthcare providers
A Two Glass of Wine Shift ”
We undertook an institutional ethnography utilizing the expert knowledge of nurses who have experienced substance-use problems to discover: (a) What are the discourses embedded in the talk among nurses in their everyday work worlds that socially organize their substance-use practices and (b) how do those discourses manage these activities? Data collection included interviews, researcher reflexivity, and texts that were critically analyzed with a …
Tell Me Why My Children Died
Recruitment of Refugees for Health Research
Research is needed to understand refugees' health challenges and barriers to accessing health services during settlement. However, there are practical and ethical challenges for engaging refugees as participants. Despite this, there have been no studies to date specifically investigating refugee perspectives on factors affecting engagement in health research. Language-concordant focus groups in British Columbia, Canada, with four government-assis…
Stay cool, sell stuff cheap, and smile
Good Intentions and Murky Ethics
Transforming breast cancer control campaigns in low and middle-income settings
Breast cancer incidence and mortality rates are similar in low resource settings like Tanzania. Structural and sociocultural barriers make late presentation typical in such settings where treatment options for advanced stage disease are limited. In the absence of national programmes, stand-alone screening campaigns tend to employ clinical models of delivery focused on individual behaviour and through a disease specific lens. This paper describes …
Did we do good? NGOs, conflicts of interest and the evaluation of short-term medical missions in Sololá, Guatemala
Health system reform and safe abortion
Unsafe abortion serves as a marker of global inequity as it is concentrated in the developing world where the poorest and most vulnerable women live. While liberalisation of abortion law is essential to the reduction of unsafe abortion, a number of challenges exist beyond this important step. This paper investigates how popular health system reforms consonant with neoliberal agendas can challenge access to safe abortion. We use Mongolia, a countr…
Supporting Southern-led Research
Unsafe Motherhood
Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying from pregnancy-related causes, little progress has been made to combat this problem. This study follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to decrease high rates of maternal mortality among indigenous Mayan women. The author examines the diverse meanings and understandings of motherhood, pregna…
Kaqchikel midwives, home births, and emergency obstetric referrals in Guatemala
Did we do good? NGOs, conflicts of interest and the evaluation of short-term medical missions in Sololá, Guatemala
"Who's Judging the Quality of Care? Indigenous Maya and the Problem of "Not Being Attended
In developing countries, lack of trust in the quality of care provided is often cited as a major factor promoting reluctance to seek biomedical help for obstetric emergencies. This article draws on fieldwork among Mayan informants in Sololá, Guatemala, to explore poor perceptions of the quality of care received when seeking obstetric care in the hospital. Using data collected over two years, I set out to understand why interviewees repeatedly com…
It's not just about being here, but what brought you here”
This qualitative study aimed to understand how migration experiences shape im/migrant women's needs, desire for, and expectations of healthcare in the British Columbia (BC), Canada context. Interviews with 33 im/migrant women (December 2018-January 2020) highlighted that traumatic experiences across migration increased healthcare needs; insufficient prior health system information contributed to poor experiences; and comparative healthcare experi…
Stay cool, sell stuff cheap, and smile
Relationships to land as a determinant of wellness for Indigenous women, two-spirit, trans, and gender diverse people of reproductive age in Toronto, Canada
Our findings indicate that among urban Indigenous women, two-spirit, trans, and gender diverse people of reproductive age there is a positive association between feeling strong in their relationships to land and feeling balanced in the four domains of health (physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional). The community-based, community-directed design of OHC Toronto was congruent with a reproductive justice approach to research. Reproductive justic…
Culture in Conversation
This commentary identifies respects in which the theories of culture adopted in the culture and self and sociocultural traditions of cultural psychology are each constrained, in part, by their psychologically grounded research agendas. While tapping non-rational and thematic aspects of culture, research on culture and the self provides only limited insight into its dynamic and heterogeneous nature and into processes of enculturation. In turn, whi…
Culture in Conversation
This commentary identifies respects in which the theories of culture adopted in the culture and self and sociocultural traditions of cultural psychology are each constrained, in part, by their psychologically grounded research agendas. While tapping non-rational and thematic aspects of culture, research on culture and the self provides only limited insight into its dynamic and heterogeneous nature and into processes of enculturation. In turn, whi…
Kaqchikel midwives, home births, and emergency obstetric referrals in Guatemala
"Who's Judging the Quality of Care? Indigenous Maya and the Problem of "Not Being Attended
In developing countries, lack of trust in the quality of care provided is often cited as a major factor promoting reluctance to seek biomedical help for obstetric emergencies. This article draws on fieldwork among Mayan informants in Sololá, Guatemala, to explore poor perceptions of the quality of care received when seeking obstetric care in the hospital. Using data collected over two years, I set out to understand why interviewees repeatedly com…
Unsafe Motherhood
Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying from pregnancy-related causes, little progress has been made to combat this problem. This study follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to decrease high rates of maternal mortality among indigenous Mayan women. The author examines the diverse meanings and understandings of motherhood, pregna…
Supporting Southern-led Research
Health system reform and safe abortion
Unsafe abortion serves as a marker of global inequity as it is concentrated in the developing world where the poorest and most vulnerable women live. While liberalisation of abortion law is essential to the reduction of unsafe abortion, a number of challenges exist beyond this important step. This paper investigates how popular health system reforms consonant with neoliberal agendas can challenge access to safe abortion. We use Mongolia, a countr…
Did we do good? NGOs, conflicts of interest and the evaluation of short-term medical missions in Sololá, Guatemala
Transforming breast cancer control campaigns in low and middle-income settings
Breast cancer incidence and mortality rates are similar in low resource settings like Tanzania. Structural and sociocultural barriers make late presentation typical in such settings where treatment options for advanced stage disease are limited. In the absence of national programmes, stand-alone screening campaigns tend to employ clinical models of delivery focused on individual behaviour and through a disease specific lens. This paper describes …
Recruitment of Refugees for Health Research
Research is needed to understand refugees' health challenges and barriers to accessing health services during settlement. However, there are practical and ethical challenges for engaging refugees as participants. Despite this, there have been no studies to date specifically investigating refugee perspectives on factors affecting engagement in health research. Language-concordant focus groups in British Columbia, Canada, with four government-assis…
Stay cool, sell stuff cheap, and smile
Good Intentions and Murky Ethics
A critical examination of empowerment discourse in medical tourism
BACKGROUND: Medical tourism is a term used to describe the phenomenon of individuals intentionally traveling across national borders to privately purchase medical care. The medical tourism industry has been portrayed in the media as an "escape valve" providing alternative care options as a result of vast economic asymmetries between the global north and global south and the flexible regulatory environment in which care is provided to medical tour…
“I beg you…breastfeed the baby, things changed”
WLWH face layered challenges navigating evolving infant feeding recommendations. Further research is needed to examine guidance and decision-making on infant feeding choices to improve postpartum experiences and outcomes. Improved communication about changes to recommendations is needed for WLWH, their partners, community members, and healthcare providers
A Two Glass of Wine Shift ”
We undertook an institutional ethnography utilizing the expert knowledge of nurses who have experienced substance-use problems to discover: (a) What are the discourses embedded in the talk among nurses in their everyday work worlds that socially organize their substance-use practices and (b) how do those discourses manage these activities? Data collection included interviews, researcher reflexivity, and texts that were critically analyzed with a …
Tell Me Why My Children Died
Facilitating equitable community-level access to maternal health services
Rwanda's maternal CHWs are heavily responsible for promoting equitable access to maternal health services. Consequently, they may be required to use their own resources for their practice, which could jeopardize their own socio-economic welfare and capacity to meet the demands of their families. Considering the unpaid and untrained nature of this position, we highlight the factors that threaten the sustainability of CHWs' role to facilitate equit…
Emergent Waithood
Using an ethics of care lens to understand the place of community health workers in Rwanda's maternal healthcare system
The Resettlement Experiences of Oromo Women Who Entered Canada as Refugees
A growing body of literature shows that gender-based experiences produce different circumstances for men and women who become refugees and thereafter. This article sought to contribute to this literature by investigating the challenges faced by Oromo women who have immigrated to Canada as refugees. Toward this end, we interviewed six Oromo women in Western Canada regarding what led them to leave Ethiopia, their experiences as refugees seeking asy…
Unsafe Motherhood
"[S]heds light not only on the obstacles to making motherhood safer, but to improving the health of poor populations in general."-Social Anthropology Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying from pregnancy-related causes, little progress has been made to combat this problem. This study follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to dec…
Improving HIV medication adherence among forced migrants living with HIV
A regular status shapes participants' adherence to HIV medications. Group-based interventions to support refugees are needed
It's not just about being here, but what brought you here”
This qualitative study aimed to understand how migration experiences shape im/migrant women's needs, desire for, and expectations of healthcare in the British Columbia (BC), Canada context. Interviews with 33 im/migrant women (December 2018-January 2020) highlighted that traumatic experiences across migration increased healthcare needs; insufficient prior health system information contributed to poor experiences; and comparative healthcare experi…
Relationships to land as a determinant of wellness for Indigenous women, two-spirit, trans, and gender diverse people of reproductive age in Toronto, Canada
Our findings indicate that among urban Indigenous women, two-spirit, trans, and gender diverse people of reproductive age there is a positive association between feeling strong in their relationships to land and feeling balanced in the four domains of health (physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional). The community-based, community-directed design of OHC Toronto was congruent with a reproductive justice approach to research. Reproductive justic…
“When I came to Canada, I almost forgot myself
For young women, im/migration can impact education, employment, and family dynamics in ways that shape the courses of their lives and health. The purpose of this study is to deepen understandings of how im/migration shapes young women's experiences of pregnancy, motherhood, and marriage. Guided by intersectionality theory and the structural and social determinants of health, we analyzed qualitative interviews conducted with young im/migrants ages…
Sex, Immigration, and Patterns of Access to Primary Care in Canada
Access to primary care is crucial to immigrant health and may be shaped by sex and gender, but research is limited and inconclusive. We identified measures that reflect access to primary care using 2015-2018 Canadian Community Health Survey data. We used multivariable logistic regression models to estimate adjusted odds of primary care access and to explore interaction effects between sex and immigration group (recent immigrant: < 10 years in Can…
Sociology (19 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Medicine (14 obras) · Nursing (10 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Global Maternal and Child Health (7 obras) · Health care (7 obras) · Migration, Health and Trauma (7 obras) · Public health (7 obras) · Economic growth (6 obras)