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Jo Szwarc
Publications - 9
Citations - 258
Jo Szwarc is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Refugee & Health care. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 206 citations.
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Accessing maternal and child health services in Melbourne, Australia: Reflections from refugee families and service providers
Elisha Riggs,Elise Davis,Lisa Gibbs,Karen Block,Jo Szwarc,Sue Casey,Philippa Duell-Piening,Elizabeth Waters +7 more
TL;DR: A systems-oriented, culturally competent approach to service provision would improve the service utilisation experience for parents and providers, including formalising links and notifications between settlement services and MCH services.
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Cultural safety and belonging for refugee background women attending group pregnancy care: An Australian qualitative study.
Elisha Riggs,Sumaiya Muyeen,Stephanie Brown,Wendy Dawson,Pauline Petschel,Waan Tardiff,Fiona Norman,Dannielle Vanpraag,Jo Szwarc,Jane Yelland +9 more
TL;DR: Group pregnancy care for Karen women from Burma has the potential to increase refugee background women's access to pregnancy care and information, sense of belonging, cultural safety using services, preparation for labor and birth, and care of a newborn.
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Bridging the language gap: a co-designed quality improvement project to engage professional interpreters for women duing labour.
Jane Yelland,Mary Anne Biro,Wendy Dawson,Elisha Riggs,Dannielle Vanpraag,Karen Wigg,John Antonopoulos,Jenny Morgans,Jo Szwarc,Chris East,Stephanie Brown +10 more
TL;DR: Improving interpreter use in high-intensity hospital birth suites is possible with supportive leadership, multidisciplinary co-design and within a framework of quality improvement cycles of change.
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Enhancing general practice referrals for women of refugee background to maternity care.
Dannielle Vanpraag,Wendy Dawson,Bianca Bell,Elisha Riggs,Elisha Riggs,Jo Szwarc,Stephanie Brown,Stephanie Brown,John Furler,Sue Casey,Glyn Teale,Jane Yelland,Jane Yelland +12 more
TL;DR: A quality improvement project implemented by a maternity hospital located in a region of high refugee settlement was designed to improve the completeness of general practice referral information to enable triage to maternity care that would best meet the needs of women of refugee background.
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Having a Say in Research Directions: The Role of Community Researchers in Participatory Research with Communities of Refugee and Migrant Background
Frances Hearn,Laura Biggs,Stephanie Brown,Lien Thi Bich Tran,Sherinald Shwe,T M Noe,Shadow Toke,May Alqas Alias,Maryaan Essa,Shogoufa Hydari,Jo Szwarc,Elisha Riggs +11 more
TL;DR: A qualitative exploratory study used decolonising methodology and the Foundation House ‘Refugee Recovery Framework' to understand Community Researchers' perceptions and experiences of their role, and how research teams can integrate the knowledge they bring into research as mentioned in this paper .