Mothers Seeking Sanctuary in Wales: a Cohort Profile
Alix Bukkfalvi-Cadotte, Ashra Khanom, Amy Brown, Helen Snooks · 2026
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Alix Bukkfalvi-Cadotte's team describes how they built a Welsh study group of mothers seeking sanctuary. That term covers refugees and asylum seekers. The comparison group was far larger, made up of UK-born mothers. Linking general practice records inside the SAIL Databank, they gathered 602 mothers in the sanctuary group. The comparison group held 146,665 UK-born mothers who had given birth in Wales since April 2014.
The two groups looked clearly different. Sanctuary-seeking mothers were far more often from a minority ethnic group. They also lived more often in the most deprived areas, yet were less often recorded as obese. The paper offers this profile as a base for later work on maternity care use and birth results. It shows that routine health records can pick out a group that past data often blurred.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Alix Bukkfalvi-Cadotte, Ashra Khanom, Amy Brown, Helen Snooks |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |