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Perspectives of public health organizations partnering with refugee, immigrant, and migrant communities for comprehensive COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
ObjectivesTo understand public health organizations’ experiences providing comprehensive COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing, and related promising practices with refugee, immigrant and migrant communities.MethodsWe interviewed public health ...
Elizabeth Dawson-Hahn, Elizabeth Dawson-Hahn, Windy Fredkove, Windy Fredkove, Sayyeda Karim, Farah Mohamed, Seja Abudiab, Diego de Acosta, Sabrina Ebengho, Yesenia Garcia, Sarah Hoffman, Sarah Hoffman, Megan Keaveney, Erin Mann, Christine Thomas, Christine Thomas, Kimberly Yu, Katherine Yun   +17 more
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Impacts of English language proficiency on healthcare access, use, and outcomes among immigrants: a qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Immigrants from culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse countries face many challenges during the resettlement phase, which influence their access to healthcare services and health outcomes.
Mamata Pandey, R. Maina, J. Amoyaw, Yiyan Li, R. Kamrul, C. Michaels, Razawa Maroof   +6 more
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Advocating for language equity: a community-public health partnership

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
In the United States, 21.5% of individuals aged 5 or older speak a language other than English at home and 8.2% have Limited English Proficiency (LEP).
Dana Kurlander, Amy G. Lam, Elizabeth Dawson-Hahn, Elizabeth Dawson-Hahn, Diego de Acosta   +4 more
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Health disparities, and health behaviours of older immigrants & native population in Norway.

PLoS ONE, 2022
We aimed to investigate and compare activities of daily living (ADL), instrumental ADL (IADL), poor self-rated health and the health behaviours among immigrants and the native population in Norway.
Samera Azeem Qureshi, Marte Kjøllesdal, Abdi Gele   +2 more
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Effects of Spatial Characteristics on Non-Standard Employment for Canada’s Immigrant Population

Economies, 2023
Using microdata from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Population Census, this paper explores how spatial characteristics are correlated with temporary employment outcomes for Canada’s immigrant population.
Waad Ali, Boadi Agyekum, Noura Al Nasiri, Ammar Abulibdeh, Shekhar Chauhan   +4 more
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The social values of newly arrived immigrants in Sweden.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Concerns have been raised that immigrants coming to Europe bring fundamentally different social values, affecting the more liberal receiving societies negatively.
Andrey Tibajev, Irina Vartanova, Soorej Puthoopparambil, Birgitta Essén, Pontus Strimling   +4 more
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Lower participation among immigrants in colorectal cancer screening in Norway

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionOrganized cancer screening programs should be equally accessible for all groups in society. We assessed differences in participation in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among different immigrant groups.MethodsBetween 2012 and 2019, 140,000 ...
Sameer Bhargava, Sameer Bhargava, Edoardo Botteri, Edoardo Botteri, Mona Berthelsen, Nadia Iqbal, Kristin Ranheim Randel, Øyvind Holme, Øyvind Holme, Paula Berstad   +9 more
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Using the CLB in WorkLINC

Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
Striving for greater English proficiency and securing a job are common goals of newcomers to Canada. For newcomers in the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program, the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB)/Niveaux de competence ...
Audrey Beaulne
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Prejudice and Discrimination Toward Immigrants.

Annual Review of Psychology, 2020
Prejudice and discrimination toward immigrants, and the consequences of these negative attitudes and behavior, are key determinants of the economic, sociocultural, and civic-political future of receiving societies and of the individuals who seek to make ...
Victoria M. Esses
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The (in)visible victims of disaster: Understanding the vulnerability of undocumented Latino/a and indigenous immigrants

Geoforum; journal of physical, human, and regional geosciences, 2020
Highlights • Systemic racism and cultural norms determine who is a “worthy disaster victim.”• Undocumented immigrants are particularly vulnerable to wildfires and pandemics.• Disaster planning should give special consideration to undocumented immigrants.•
M. Méndez, Genevieve Flores-Haro, Lucas Zucker   +2 more
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