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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 Healthcare education for recent immigrants Gaps identified There is a need for healthcare education programs and a strong supportive system to facilitate better health choices and encourage health care service use for recent immigrants Key findings Healthcare choices are influenced by pre and post m...
Key findings NA Key recommendations Providing more funding, material resources, staff or volunteers, programming, or program sites to lessen waiting lists Gaps identified Long waiting lists immigration and integration programmes and classes Location Calgary, Alberta Key populations Service providers (part of CL...
Location Calgary, Alberta Key recommendations Better advertising of existing programs and services is essential. Different kinds of services and supports are needed for professional and non-skilled migrants. Key findings Calgarians who are born outside Canada sometimes do not access migration services during...
Gaps identified NA Key findings Broad capitalist ideologies affect the conditions of labour that TFWs experience The demands of ‘work’ can contradict the requirements of ‘home’, and threaten workers’ abilities to maintain important social relationships and articulate aspects of their cultural identities Alberta...
Gaps identified Employment: • Earnings of newcomers involved in various sectors of the economy, and the influence of Edmonton’s boom and bust cycle on this. • Experiences of economically successful immigrant groups and the strategies that worked for them to transition out of low-income socioeconomic levels. Health and...
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 findings Private spronsorship is effective for bringing refugees to Canada All three refugees programs (government-assisted refugees (GARs), privately-sponsored refugees (PSRs), and the blended refugee program (BVORs)) were largely successful in bringing in Syrian refugees to safe places in Canada. PSRs seemed to b...
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...