Maninder Singh Setia|Amélie Quesnel?Vallée|Micha? Abrahamowicz|Pierre Tousignant|John Lynch
Access to health?care in Canadian immigrants: a longitudinal study of the National Population Health Survey
McGill University|McGill University|McGill University|McGill University|University of South Australia|University of Bristol
immigrants often lose health advantage start adapting ways new society access care needed one way individuals maintain health assessed healthcare access canadian immigrants socioeconomic factors associated access 12year period compared two measures healthcare access regular doctor reporting unmet healthcare need past 12 months among immigrants canadianborn men women aged 18 years applied logistic random effects model evaluate outcomes separately 3081 males 4187 females national population health survey 19942006 adjusting covariates immigrant men women white nonwhite similar odds regular doctor canadianborn individuals white immigrants males 132 95 ci 089194 females 114 95 ci 078166 nonwhite immigrants males 128 95 ci 073223 females 123 95 ci 064236 interestingly nonwhite immigrant women significantly fewer unmet health needs 032 95 ci 017059 among immigrants time since immigration associated access regular doctor per year 102 95 ci 100104 visible minority female immigrants least likely report unmet healthcare need general little evidence immigrants worse access healthcare canadianborn population