Vulnerable Populations

Indigenous Health

Browne, A. J., Varcoe, C., Lavoie, J., Smye, V., Wong, S. T., Krause, M., Tu, D., Godwin, O., Khan, K., … Fridkin, A. (2016). Enhancing health care equity with Indigenous populations: evidence-based strategies from an ethnographic study. BMC health services research, 16(1), 544. doi:10.1186/s12913-016-1707-9.

Kovesi, T. (2012). Respiratory disease in Canadian First Nations and Inuit children. Paediatrics & Child Health (1205-7088), 17(7), 376–380

Lafontaine, Alika (2018). Indigenous health disparities: a challenge and an opportunity. Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie, 61(5), 300-301.

National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health. (2017). Transforming our realities : The determinants of health and indigenous Peoples. Retrieved October/14, 2018, from http://0-www.deslibris.ca.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/ID/10094282.

Richmond, C.A.M., & Cook, C. (2016). Creating conditions for Canadian aboriginal health equity: The promise of public health policy. Public Health Reviews, 37. doi: 10.1186/s40985-016-0016-5.

Senior Health

Recommendations from the CMA for improving senior healthcare in Canada

Canadian Medical Association (CMA). (2016) Retrieved on November 17, 2018 from https://www.cma.ca/En/Lists/Medias/the-state-of-seniors-health-care-in-canada-september-2016.pdf

Understanding what makes people vulnerable

Schröder-Butterfill, E., & Marianti, R. (2006). A framework for understanding old-age vulnerabilities. Ageing and society, 26(1), 9-35.

Statistics and facts about caregivers in Canada

Statistics Canada. (2012). Portrait of Caregivers. Retrieved on November 17, 2018 from https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/89-652-x/89-652-x2013001-eng.htm

Immigrant and Refugee Health

Langlois, E. V., Haines, A., Tomson, G., & Ghaffar, A. (2016). Refugees: towards better access to health-care services. Lancet (London, England), 387(10016), 319-321.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5603273/

See the following link for evidence-based clinical guidelines for refugees and immigrants

Pottie, K., Greenaway, C., Feightner, J., Welch, V., Swinkels, H., Rashid, M., Narasiah, L., Kirmayer, L. J., Ueffing, E., MacDonald, N. E., Hassan, G., McNally, M., Khan, K., Buhrmann, R., Dunn, S., Dominic, A., McCarthy, A. E., Gagnon, A. J., Rousseau, C., Tugwell, P., coauthors of the Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee Health (2011). Evidence-based clinical guidelines for immigrants and refugees. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 183(12), E824-925.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168666/

Raaj Tiagi. (2016). Access to and utilization of health care services among Canada’s immigrants. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, (2), 146. https://0-doi-org.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/10.1108/IJMHSC-06-2014-0027