Immigrants in Canada constitute approximately 20% of the total population and will continue
to account for a significant portion of the country's population in the future. Accordingly, a …

Studies have shown that immigrants are normally in better health on arrival compared to
their Canadian-born counterparts. However, the health conditions of new immigrants …

This review investigates the health of immigrants to Canada by critically examining
differences in health status between immigrants and the native-born population and by …

This paper combines multiple cross-sections of data drawn from the National Population
Health Survey and Canadian Community Health Survey to confirm the existence of the …

Objective The healthy immigrant effect suggests new immigrants to Canada enjoy better
health, on average, than those born in Canada, yet crosssectional data suggest that …

The literature suggests that the foreign-born, and especially recent arrivals, enjoy better
health than their Canadian-born counterparts, as measured by a number of health outcomes …

The purpose of this paper, which utilizes data from the Canadian Community Health Survey
(CCHS-Cycle 1.1), is threefold. The first is to examine the health of Canadian immigrants in …

This study sought to assess whether the health of recent immigrants to Canada has changed
in the past decade. Using the Canadian Community Health Survey this study examined …

A growing body of literature suggests that immigrants to Canada experience deterioration in
their health status after settling in the country. While self-selection processes and Canadian …

The 'Healthy Immigrant Effect'(HIE), as it is dubbed in the social science literature, is the
finding that recent immigrants are healthier than the average locally born resident but that …