Understanding the conditions that influence the roles of midwives in Ontario, Canada’s health system: an embedded single-case study

BackgroundDespite the significant variability in the role and integration of midwifery across provincial and territorial health systems, there has been limited scholarly inquiry into whether, how and under what conditions midwifery has been assigned roles and integrated into Canada’s health systems.MethodsWe use Yin’s (2014) embedded single-case study design, which allows for an in-depth exploration to qualitatively assess how, since the …