How to Search the Library:
Collections are broad categories that organize research items around a common theme or topic. Browse or filter collections to quickly explore research in your areas of interest.
Tags are keywords that describe the content of individual research items, making it easier to find, filter, and connect related information. Select one or more tags to narrow your search or discover related research across collections. Using multiple tags together can reveal broader topic areas, identify recurring issues, and highlight researchers' primary areas of focus.
Articles can be searched by filtering by collection, publication type, region, or year; or any combination of these.
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...
Future research / gaps identified: 1) Advocate for HBV infant birth dose in alignment with WHO recommendation and publicly-funded “catch-up” vaccinations for unvaccinated adults 2) Establish national screening guidelines for hepatitis B beyond prenatal testing 3) Education providers on best practices for communicating...
Future research / gaps identified: Evaluate policy changes and resource mobilization initiated to address the issues stated in the findings. Integration timeline: All participants were Canadian citizens, with an average length of HIV/AIDS status of 9 years. Key findings: 1) Overall, ACB community members experience...
Integration timeline: not defined Key recommendations: 1) Urgently develop targeted, evidence-based interventions to address the social determinants of health that lead to poor outcomes for IRLHIV 2) Co-create responsive and culturally safe services for and by IRLHIV Location: Alberta, not otherwise specified Com...
Community organizations: Calgary Catholic Immigration Society Integration timeline: N/A Key populations: Newcomer families living in Calgary, Alberta Arabic-speaking newcomer families in Calgary (for the focus group) Key recommendations: Co-development of resources with newcomer families contribute to newc...
Community organizations: n/a Open access: Yes Location: Calgary, AB Key populations: refugees in Calgary Integration timeline: not defined Key findings: 1) More family physicians and improving health system navigation were the top health and research priorities identified by the PAC across all resettlement pe...
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...
Future research / gaps identified: Moving forwards, the Table intends to co-create a charter and toolkit outlining best practices for ethical, race-based data collection and use with local stakeholders and knowledge users. Integration timeline: not defined Open access: No Community organizations: n/a Key findi...
Key findings: 1) Between 2014 and 2018, HPV vaccination coverage among immigrant children at age 12 years was significantly higher (52.58%) compared with non-immigrant children (47.41%). 2) After controlling for place of residence, income quintile, biological sex and year, immigrant children had 1.10 greater odds (95%...
Location: Canada-wide Key Recommendations: Eliminate provisions in immigration legislation that deny entry or stay in Canada based on medical conditions and instead prioritize linking people care. Decouple medical counselling and testing from the immigration application process and instead offer as part of inte...
Our latest snapshot pulls together key numbers on newcomers in Alberta — settlement, employment, health and more — in one short read.