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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...
Open access: No Location: Alberta broadly (not otherwise specified) Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: 1) Evaluate and modify labour and economic policies in Alberta that affect undocumented migrants, such that these health disparities are decreased. 2) Assess different models of heal...
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...
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...
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...
Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: Work with communities to co-identify solutions to the barriers found in this study. Integration timeline: newcomers not defined Key findings Barriers to primary health care access included: Long wait times, unavailability of practitioners, and long...
Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: Study limitations included: Qualitative findings from one part of Alberta may not necessarily be generalizable to African immigrant communities in other areas. Parent perspectives were explored, but not those of the youth and children themselves. E...
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...
Key recommendations NA Gaps identified NA Community organizations NA Key findings A flexible, culturally-tailored menu plan was a feasible and effective tool for improving diabetes knowledge, diet quality, and metabolic outcomes among Chinese immigrants with type 2 diabetes. Location Edmonton, Alberta Key pop...
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