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This learning note adopts an intersectional social determinants of health framework to examine immigrant women’s health in Canada. Intersectionality highlights how overlapping systems of inequality, such as gender, race, socio-economic position, and immigration status, interact to produce distinct health outcomes. Immi...
Community organizations: Mosaic Refugee Health Clinic Future research / gaps identified: This study focuses on 1 specific clinic and cannot be generalized to other contexts. Integration timeline: first 2 years after arrival Key populations: Afghan refugees resettled in Calgary who are using the Mosaic Refugee He...
Key findings: 1) The overarching theme of the interviews was “The necessity of finding ways to survive in the face of intersecting challenges.” 2) The subtheme “struggles in Canada” discussed structural barriers to economic success, compounded discrimination across intersectional identities, and the burden of the doubl...
Community organizations: Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS) Future research / gaps identified: Evaluate long-term effects of the program. Integration timeline: mean of 1.19 months since arrival in Canada Key findings: 1) Positive changes, particularly for those who participated frequently, included impro...
Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: Perspectives of service providers were explored, and not those of the young men they were serving. Integration timeline: not defined Key findings: 1) Our first theme, a sense of self in relation to systems, included connections between mental wellbei...
Community organizations: n/a Integration timeline: not defined Key populations: South Asians in Edmonton Key recommendations: Engage with ethnocultural communities when building lasting information-sharing partnerships Develop frameworks that can assist researchers in developing and documenting partnerships w...
Community organizations: n/a Key findings: Intersections between racialized counsellors’ own identities and those of their clients led to: Increased attachment to and connection with their own ethnic group, heritage, and history Increased appreciation of their ethnic identity and its role in their lives and funct...
Open access: No Location: Calgary, AB Community organizations: n/a Integration timeline: not defined Key populations: Yazidi refugees 17 years old or younger, with a sex-matched control group of non-Yazidi pediatric refugees from Iraq or Syria Future research / gaps identified: Results are not generalizable a...
Future research / gaps identified: Complete a longitudinal study (i.e. follow participants over time) to support this data. Integration timeline: not defined Key findings: 1) The majority of participants had more knowledge of postnatal mental health as compared to prenatal mental health. 2) Only 25.4% accurately r...
Community organization: Ribbon Rouge Edmonton Community Foundation Key findings: Alberta’s interactive heath data portal does not have much information broken down by race. Diversity in the Black community is often not captured in stats (e.g. ethnicity, immigration status), which results in ineffective ‘o...