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Gaps identified NA Key findings Women’s perceptions of health, and examples of how they tried to achieve such, showed they wanted to do best for their and baby’s health but faced numerous difficult life circumstances during pregnancy and postpartum. Despite existing challenges, programs, such as HMHB, can play a crit...
Location Calgary, Alberta Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? NA Key populations Service providers Key Recommendations A more in-deoth understanding of the impact of cuts in fundings on refugees. Key findings This research is on the barriers and facilitators in...
Key recommendations Need for further research into the topic Need to develop predictive tools that can identify women at most risk of experiencing poor outcomes that come as the result of not having a female care provider during childbirth Key findings Immigrant women prefer to have a female physician for obste...
Location Edmonton, Alberta Key recommendations Preventative dental care cannot happen when there are structural barriers in place (such as access to insurance and prohibitive costs), these must be addressed alongside informing newcomers about the importance of preventative dental care for their children Key populat...
Key findings People who were born abroad and referred for in-country surveillance after migration were more likely to be diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis. That were all non-referrals and non-referrals from high risk countries. Referrals had a roughly 80% decreased risk of transmitting TB and did not result in any...
Key populations Immigrant children Location Winnipeg, Mannitoba Key recommendations Raising awareness of the importance of oral health among newcomers and service providers caring for them. Oral health promotion activities must be tailored to each group of newcomers to ensure they are culturally appropriate and eff...
Location NA Community organizations Zimbabwe Cultural Society of Alberta Africa Centre Catholic Social Services Key recommendations Need for expanded integration of language services within health systems to facilitate provision of informational, affirmational, and emotional support to refugee new parents Future re...
Key findings Physicians are sympathetic to immigrant women’s requests for female obstetricians, but prioritize gender equity in the healthcare system and wider society. So they resisted accommodating gender-of-health-care provider requests Location Edmonton, Alberta Community organizations NA Key populations Immig...
Community organizations NA Location Alberta Key recommendations Future research is needed on the topic Need for more robust integration programmes that will include both international and intranational migrants Key populations rural non-farming and urban-non-farming Albertans Gaps identified Not enough research...
Key populations Immigrant social workers (female and male) Gaps identified Lack of research that addresses gender-based experiences of immigrant social workers Key recommendations Remove barriers to social workers’ professional and personal adaptation in the following areas: “language, employment, housing, daycare,...