Anita J. Gagnon|Geoffrey Dougherty|Olive Wahoush|Jean?François Saucier|Cindy?Lee Dennis|Elizabeth Stanger|Becky Palmer|Lisa Merry|Donna E. Stewart
International migration to Canada: The post-birth health of mothers and infants by immigration class
McGill University|McGill University Health Centre|McGill University|McGill University Health Centre|McMaster University|Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine|Women's College Hospital|University of Toronto|Vancouver Coastal Health|Health Canada|Children's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia|McGill University|University Health Network|University of Toronto
214 million international migrants worldwide half women assigned receiving country immigration class immigration classes associated certain health risks regulatory restrictions related eligibility health care prior study reports international migrant postbirth health compared immigration classes exception earlier smaller study found asylumseekers greatest risk health concerns order determine whether refugee asylumseeking women infants experience greater number different distribution professionallyidentified health concerns birth immigrant canadianborn women recruited 1127 migrant canada 5 years womeninfant pairs defined immigration class refugee asylumseeker immigrant canadianborn february 2006 may 2009 followed childbirth one eleven birthing centres montreal toronto four months found one week postpartum asylumseeking immigrant women greater rates professionallyidentified health concerns canadianborn women four months three migrant groups greater rates professionallyidentified concerns international migrants greater risk concerns addressed canadian health care system current study supports earlier findings highlights need casefinding services international migrant women particularly psychosocial difficulties policy program mechanisms address migrants needs would best developed within various immigration classes