Although recent immigrants to Canada are healthier than Canadian born (ie, the Healthy
Immigrant Effect), they experience a deterioration in their health status which is partly due to …

In 2005 women represented approximately half of all 190 million international migrants
worldwide. This paper addresses the need to integrate a gender perspective into …

The existence of a healthy immigrant effect—where immigrants are on average healthier
than the native born—is a widely cited phenomenon across a multitude of literatures …

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 …

Background: Medical screening plays a role in explaining the healthy immigrant effect (HIE)
among immigrants newly landed in Canada. The 2002 Immigration and Refugee Protection …

Although there is no paucity of theoretical frameworks for explaining people's health service
utilization (HSU), theoretical frameworks designed to account for variations in immigrants' …

This paper is an analysis of the determinants of self‐reported health status of immigrants,
with a particular focus on the type of visa used to gain admission. The empirical analysis …

Previous literature on a variety of countries has documented a “healthy immigrant
effect”(HIE). Accordingly, immigrants arriving in the host country are, on average, healthier …

Purpose There has been no comprehensive examination of how race/ethnicity and nativity
intersect in explaining differences in lifetime prevalence of mental disorders among Asian …

Previous work suggests that regional variation in pre-migration exposure to racism and
discrimination, measured by a region's racial composition, predicts differences in individual …