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Objective: It has been reported that being part of a minority group may be negatively associated with self-perceived health. The objective of this analysis was to determine whether there are differences in perceived health between the Francophone minority and Anglophone majority in New Brunswick, the only officially bilingual province in Canada. Methods: Data from the first four primary cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey (2001 to 2007) were obtained for 17,729 New Brunswick...
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Mental illness affects about 1 in 5 Canadians during their lifetime but only approximately 30% of people needing help actually access mental health ser vices (Gravel, Connolly & Bédard, 2004). This low access rate is worrisome and may not accurately depict the reality as it is lived out by linguistic minorities. The present study documents both the need for and access to English-lan guage mental health services by the Estrie region’s English-speaking minority. Intending to record their...
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Il existe peu de données probantes permettant d’évaluer les disparités en matière de santé entre les groupes linguistiques au Québec. Ce projet propose une méthode de classification des communautés du Québec en fonction de l’appartenance linguistique de la population ainsi que l’association, basée sur le lieu de résidence des patients, des données médico-administratives et de celles du recensement. Ensuite, des comparaisons entre les groupes linguistiques quant aux traitements et au...
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Access to long-term nursing homes by French-speaking seniors in minority situations is a very real problem. However, few studies have been conducted on this subject. We wanted to better understand this issue in New Brunswick while taking into account the language aspect. In this article, we will present the problem based on different issues encountered by Francophones in minority situations and by giving an overview of the studies conducted on French-speaking seniors in minority situations....
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There is growing interest in language barriers in health care (LBHC) – interest, that is, in how the quality of health care service delivery might be compromised when patients and health care providers do not share the same first language. This article discusses LBHC as an emerging research area that provides valuable opportunities for researchers in various branches of the language sciences – including, among others, applied linguistics, theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, second...
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