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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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HOW COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES WORK TOGETHER TO ADDRESS THE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF RECENT IMMIGRANT CHILDREN

Isaacs, Sandra M. 10 1900 (has links)
<p>Introduction</p> <p>Canadian health and social service systems need to adapt to new challenges posed by the unique primary health care (PHC) needs of recent immigrant families. Community-based service providers are the first to experience changing responsibilities. Providers in communities with limited experience in working with immigrants may benefit from shared skills and modeled cultural competencies when working with new arrivals.</p> <p>Purpose</p> <p>This case study describes how a set of community-based service organizations addressed the PHC needs of recent immigrant families with young children living within a mid-sized urban centre in Atlantic Canada. The roles of organizational brokers and of <em>competence trust</em> among service providers were examined to determine their influence on the capacities of the service network overall.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Methods from social network analysis and descriptive qualitative inquiry were applied in this study. Organizational ecology contructs framed the research questions and propositions. An intersectoral approach to PHC was adopted to define the services network. Results derived from the network survey and key informant interviews were triangulated to develop a final interpretation.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The study network constituted a relatively cohesive group of service providers. Network participation became more selective depending on the issue experienced by families. Network interactions were facilitated by broker organizations; some brokers actively engaged in the development of cultural competency capacities among network members. Trust in the other provider organization’s cultural competencies (<em>competence trust</em>) with recent immigrant families positively influenced the quality of working relationships.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Broker organizations can play a significant role in network capacity development through the promotion of cultural competencies in partnering organizations and by making connections across service sectors. The cultural competence of partnering organizations is an important pre-condition of trust for service providers committed to the needs of recent immigrant families. Having trusting relationships among providers can facilitate exchange and enable access to services. Nurses have the potential to participate in the advancement of culturally competent service systems.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Avantage de santé des immigrants et dissipation de cet avantage avec la durée de résidence : analyse de leurs évolutions au Canada entre 2001 et 2018

Méango, Zranwieu Rebecca Koyé Nabrissa 04 1900 (has links)
Diverses études s’accordent sur le fait que les immigrants, notamment dans les premiers moments succédant leur arrivée, sont en meilleure santé que les natifs, ce que l’on appelle l’« effet de sélection de l’immigrant en bonne santé » (ESIBS). Toutefois, cet effet tend à se dissiper avec la durée de résidence dans le pays d’accueil. Dans la perspective de vérifier si ce fait est toujours avéré au Canada, l’objectif principal de l’étude est de documenter l’évolution de l’ESIBS au cours des 20 dernières années. En outre, nous analysons l’évolution du rôle de la durée de résidence dans la dissipation de l’ESIBS, et en particulier nous cherchons à savoir si cette dissipation s’observe toujours et dans quelle mesure. Pour atteindre notre objectif, nous appuyons nos analyses sur les données issues de tous les passages de l’Enquête sur la santé dans les collectivités canadiennes (ESCC) de 2001 à 2018 (au nombre de 8), excepté celle de 2011-2012 pour laquelle les données sont indisponibles. Pour mesurer la santé des individus, nous nous en remettons principalement à la variable de la santé perçue ou auto-déclarée de l’ESCC. L’analyse descriptive, dans un premier temps, met en lumière le rôle de la durée de résidence sur la santé perçue en croisant cette variable avec une série de variables sociodémographiques, en particulier l’âge, le sexe, l’ethnicité et le revenu. Une analyse multivariée, basée sur le modèle complémentaire log-log (ou cloglog), permet d’étudier de manière plus approfondie les relations entre la variable (dépendante) de santé perçue et ces variables indépendantes. Comme résultats principaux, nous observons que l’ESIBS s’est maintenu tout au long de la période étudiée, de même que l’effet négatif sur la santé de la durée de résidence écoulée. Il semble même que l’ESIBS se soit accentué avec le temps, particulièrement pour les immigrants récents (i.e., durée de résidence < 10 ans). Cette amélioration s’observe plus particulièrement chez les femmes immigrantes récentes en 2018, probablement à cause d’un effet de sélection accru dans ces cohortes d’immigrantes. L’amélioration de la santé perçue des immigrants est également statistiquement significative, mais n’est pas aussi prononcée que pour les immigrantes. Hormis l’état matrimonial et la province de résidence pour lesquels l’effet n’était pas très important dans nos modèles, les autres variables conjuguées avec la durée de résidence permettent d’approfondir notre compréhension de l’ESIBS et de ses relations multivariées avec ses principaux déterminants mesurables. Fait notoire, l’ESIBS se manifeste presqu’exclusivement dans les groupes socioéconomiques les moins avantagés, et pratiquement pas dans les groupes avantagés, indiquant qu’un revenu élevé peut avoir le rôle d’un effet protecteur de la santé, chez les natifs comme chez les immigrants. / Various studies agree that immigrants, especially in the first moments after arrival, are healthier than the native-born, the so-called “healthy immigrant effect” (HIE). However, this effect tends to dissipate with the length of residence in the host country. In order to verify whether this fact is still true in Canada, the main objective of the study is to document the evolution of the HIE over the last 20 years. In addition, we analyze the changing role of residence time in the dissipation of HIE, and in particular whether and to what extent this dissipation is still observed. To achieve our objective, we base our analyses on data from all the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) rounds from 2001 to 2018 (8 in number), except for 2011-2012 for which data are unavailable. To measure the health of individuals, we rely primarily on the perceived or self-reported health variable of the CCHS. The descriptive analysis first highlights the role of length of residence on perceived health by cross-tabulating this variable with a series of socio-demographic variables, in particular age, gender, ethnicity and income. A multivariate analysis based on the complementary log-log (or cloglog) model, allows us to further investigate the relationships between the (dependent self-reported health variable and these independent variables. As main results we observe that the HIE has been maintained throughout the study period, as well as the negative effect of the length of residence on health. It even seems that the HIE has increased over time, especially for recent immigrants (i.e., length of residence <10 years). This improvement is particularly observed among recent immigrant women in 2018, probably due to an increased selection effect in these immigrant cohorts. The improvement in the self-reported health of immigrants is also statistically significant but is not as pronounced as for female immigrants. Apart from marital status and province of residence, for which the effect was not very significant in our models, the other variables combined with length of residence provide further insight into the HIE and its multivariate relationships with its main measurable determinants. Notably, HIE occurs almost exclusively in the lowest socio-economic groups, and almost not in the highest, indicating that high income may act as a protective effect on health, both for natives and immigrants.

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