Community organizations: Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS)
Future research / gaps identified:
Evaluate long-term effects of the program.
Integration timeline: mean of 1.19 months since arrival in Canada
Key findings:
1) Positive changes, particularly for those who participated frequently, included impro...
Integration timeline: newcomers not defined
Community organizations
Sagesse (Calgary)
Canadian Pakistani Support Group Association (Calgary)
The Today Centre (Edmonton)
Indo Canadian Women’s Association (Edmonton)
Future research / gaps identified:
The women themselves were not interviewed (only seconda...
Key findings:
The City of Calgary is committed to removing systemic racism through education, engagement, collaboration, and policy changes.
Intersectionality and adopting an anti-colonial lens are key considerations in addressing systemic racism.
The framework aims to create anti-racist safe spaces and processes...
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...
Key populations
NA
Key recommendations
Public health policy-makers must be cognizant that large-scale public health efforts must be accessible to all people across all socio-economic levels
Key findings
The measles outbreak of 2013/2014 involved the entirety of Alberta and led to both provincial and city-specific i...
Community organizations: n/a
Key findings:
1) Women do not receive enough care for a miscarriage, and immigrant women are particularly vulnerable as they may have a lack of social and familial support in Canada.
2) Cost, stigma, lack of support, language and other accessibility factors impact immigrant women’s abilit...
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...
Community organizations
Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association
Key findings
93% of participants indicated their safety and support network improved
95% of participants learned how/where to access community services
91% of participants reported they learned about risk factors and impacts of family violence...
Community organizations: n/a
Future research / gaps identified:
Future research: Continue to analyze healthcare access and health disparities between Albertans born inside or outside of Canada as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gaps: The survey only collected data from a snapshot in time, and the survey result...
Future research / gaps identified:
Results cannot be generalized to all South Asian youth or all immigrant youth in general, across different intersectional social locations
Integration timeline: immigrants not defined
Key findings:
Barriers to sexual and reproductive health service access were: fear of stigma &...
