Project Overview
To address immigrant health disparities, timely evidence-informed, equity-based, and community-engaged policy solutions are urgently needed. In the current project, we will be using population-based analyses and mixed methods contextual analyses to explicate preventable health inequities experienced by immigrant communities in Canada. Our consultation with migrant community partners, the national CIHR Youth Health Advisory, and other groups have identified two main priority areas: mental health (all ages) and sexual health (youth), along with food insecurity, discrimination, and other social determinants of health that can influence these priority health issues. We will use large-scale health surveys in Canada to track trends in health disparities among migrant populations.
Research Questions
- What are 20-year trends in sexual and mental health outcomes among migrant youth in Western Canada compared to their Canadian-born peers?
- Are any disparities in sexual and mental health improving or worsening?
- Is there evidence previous policy changes have reduced risks and improved health for homestay students compared to earlier homestay students, and relative to their migrant peers who accompany their parents?
- What correlates and social determinants help explain health inequities in sexual and mental health for migrant youth populations, especially for LGBTQ+ migrant youth, racialized migrant youth, and refugee youth in particular?
Methods
- Statistical Analysis
- Surveys
Collaborators
UBC School of Nursing & Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre (SARAVYC)
- Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Saewyc (Professor, School of Nursing)
- Co-investigator: Abdul-Fatawu Abdulai (Assistant Professor, School of Nursing)
- Project Manager: Monica Rana (Managing Director, SARAVYC)
- Mauricio Coronel Villalobos (Research Associate, SARAVYC)
- Yeshvi Mehta (Research Assistant, SARAVYC)
- Daniel Ji (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SARAVYC)
- Shams M.F. Al-Anzi (Doctoral Student, SARAVYC)
- Ohud Alotaibi (Doctoral Student, SARAVYC)
- Helen Okoye (Doctoral Student, SARAVYC)
- Marie Louise Umwangange (Doctoral Student, SARAVYC
Toronto Metropolitan University
- Josephine Wong (Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing)
Outputs
- Work in progress
Project Status
This project is currently in the Data Analysis and Writing phases.
This research was undertaken thanks in part to funding from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.
