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Future research / gaps identified: The database did not include other factors that could potentially impact vaccine uptake, such as education and healthcare access. Integration timeline: not defined Key recommendations: 1) Tailor vaccine promotion initiatives to immigrants from specific continents who have the lowe...
Integration timeline: Newcomers not defined Key findings Loneliness was magnified by social distancing, fear of contracting COVID-19, and lack of in-person mosque activities Online services created barriers to accessing social supports through the mosque Due to a lack of culturally sensitive resources and servi...
Integration timeline Key recommendations IPV service providers should receive mandatory trainings on working with different marginalized groups. A client-centered and intersectional approach is recommended. Increasediversity of providers and community partners may help increase safety and trust. Barriers t...
Open access: No Location: Calgary Key recommendations Integrate culturally-responsive forms of healthcare delivery. Integrate barrier-reducing and hesitancy specific measures that factor in structural and systemic components of hesitancy and under-vaccination. Factor personal and external motivators to promot...
Location: Literature review itself was not location-specific but the bigger project in which this project is part of is situated in Calgary. Key recommendations Reduce barriers to access through targeted supports and strategies (e.g., vaccination site in a targeted neighbourhood, mobile outreach). Include e...
Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: Increase community engagement in future vaccination efforts, especially when addressing marginalized communities Integration timeline: newcomers not defined Key findings The community-engaged COVID-19 vaccine outreach clinic for migrant communities...
Future research/gaps identified: Develop new initiatives for vaccine messaging and delivery, specifically for older immigrants and immigrants in rural Alberta Integration timeline 2 – 20 years since arrival Key populations Immigrants and refugees across Alberta Key recommendations Tailor publi...
Key recommendations Increase legislation in Alberta for temporary foreign workers (TFWs) to ensure safety in the Prairie region, such as changing conditions to make the work permit applicable to more than one job in the same sector, and work permits for spouses of TFWs Create a monitoring program through funding fr...
Community organizations: n/a Key findings: Immigrant and racialized women are over-represented among health care aids in long term care. COVID-19 has exacerbated preexisting economic and social exclusion of immigrant health care aides employed in long term care. Addressing intersectional inequalities experien...
Community organizations: 25 heritage language schools in Edmonton (names not specified) Future research / gaps identified: n/a Integration timeline: newcomers not defined Key findings: During the COVID-19 pandemic, heritage language schools: 1) Supported temporary foreign workers (e.g. assisting TFWs to find aff...
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