Access to health care based on need rather than ability to pay was the founding principle of
the Canadian health-care system. Medicare was born in one province in 1947. It spread …

Abstract The “Healthy Immigrant Effect”(HIE) suggests that immigrants have a health
advantage over the domestic-born which vanishes with increased length of residency. Most …

Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly disrupted daily life in Canada. This
study assesses changes in health behaviours during the early stages of the pandemic and …

The rising number of immigrants to the United States and other western countries has been
accompanied by rising interest in the characteristics of immigrants including their mortality …

BackgroundThe aims of this meta-analysis are (i) to estimate the pooled relative risk (RR) of
developing non-affective psychotic disorder (NAPD) and affective psychotic disorder (APD) …

Immigrant and refugee populations experience life stressors due to difficult migration
journeys and challenges in leaving one country and adapting to another. These life …

The literature on immigrant health has repeatedly reported the paradoxical finding, where
immigrants from Latin American countries to OECD countries appear to enjoy better health …

It is often believed that the settlement and integration of skilled immigrants is moderately
easy in Canada, and that skilled immigrants do well in Canada after a brief adjustment …

BACKGROUND The Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE) refers to the fact that recent migrants are
in better health than the nonmigrant population in the host country. Central to explaining the …

Objective Drawing on theoretical accounts of LGBTQ minority stress and models of social
integration and immigrant health, the present study examines sexual and gender minority …