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Dominant Cultural Narratives, Racism, and Resistance in the Workplace: A Study of the Experiences of Young Black Canadians

July 1, 2016

Although many studies have examined lived experiences of racism and resistance in various contexts, relatively little research has examined such experiences among Black youth within the workplace-particularly in the Canadian context. In this study I use qualitative analyses of narrative interviews with 24 Black Canadian youth and young adults (aged 16-35) to examine the impact…
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“Live Chat” Clients at Kids Help Phone: Individual Characteristics and Problem Topics

July 1, 2016

Objective: Young people in Canada prefer to use the Internet over face-to-face contact when seeking help for problems of daily living and mental health problems. Kids Help Phone (KHP) provides on-demand, anonymous help to young people via telephone and Live Chat technologies. Methods: Two hundred thirty-two phone clients and 230 Live Chat clients responded to…
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Black-White health inequalities in Canada at the intersection of gender and immigration.

July 1, 2016

Objectives : Intersectionality theory proposes that each combination of social categories derived from gender, race and nationality, such as immigrant White man or native-born Black woman, is associated with unique social experiences. We tested the potential of intersectionality theory for explicating racial inequalities in Canada by investigating whether Black-White health inequalities are conditioned by gender…
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Racial-Ethnic Differences in Health Service Use in a Large Sample of Homeless Adults With Mental Illness From Five Canadian Cities

July 1, 2016

Objective: This study examined factors associated with health care use in an ethnically diverse Canadian sample of homeless adults with mental illness, a particularly disadvantaged group. Methods: Baseline survey data were available from five sites across Canada for 2,195 At Home/Chez Soi demonstration project participants. Negative binomial regression models examined the relationship between racial-ethnic or…
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Role of ethnicity in treating uterine fibroids with ulipristal acetate.

June 20, 2016

Objective: To study differences in treatment effect between black and white premenopausal women prescribed ulipristal acetate (UPA) for symptomatic uterine fibroids. Design: Prospective observational cohort study. Setting: Gynecology clinics. Patient(s): Premenopausal women aged 18–55 years, at least one symptomatic uterine fibroid, UPA-naïve, and no contraindications for UPA treatment. Intervention(s): One 3-month course of UPA at…
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A comparison of virological suppression and rebound between Indigenous and non-Indigenous persons initiating combination antiretroviral therapy in a multisite cohort of individuals living with HIV in Canada.

May 1, 2016

Background: This study compared time to virological suppression and rebound between Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals living with HIV in Canada initiating combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). Methods: Data were from the Canadian Observational Cohort collaboration; eight studies of treatment-naive persons with HIV initiating cART after 1/1/2000. Fine and Gray models were used to estimate the effect…
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Sexual Networking and Partner Characteristics Among Single, African, Caribbean, and Black Youth in Windsor, Ontario

March 22, 2016

The disproportionate HIV burden shared by African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) populations in Canada has not been explained by unique sexual behaviors in this population. This study investigates partner selection and sexual networking as potential contributors to HIV vulnerability. The study examines variations in the characteristics of sexual partners and sexual networking across groups based…
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AIDS Service Organization Access Among African, Caribbean and Other Black Residents of an Average Canadian City

February 19, 2016

Due to heightened vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) communities are priority groups for prevention and intervention services in Canada. However, it is not clear which factors may affect ACB communities’ access to these services. We evaluated access to the local AIDS service organization (ASO) in Middlesex-London by using data from the Black,…
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Comparison of black–white disparities in preterm birth between Canada and the United States

January 5, 2016

Background: A higher risk of preterm birth among black women than among white women is well established in the United States. We compared differences in preterm birth between non-Hispanic black and white women in Canada and the US, hypothesizing that disparities would be less extreme in Canada given the different historical experiences of black populations…
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Sexual inactivity and sexual satisfaction among women living with HIV in Canada in the context of growing social, legal and public health surveillance

October 5, 2015

Introduction: Women represent nearly one-quarter of the 71,300 people living with HIV in Canada. Within a context of widespread HIV-related stigma and discrimination and on-going risks to HIV disclosure, little is known about the influence of growing social, legal and public health surveillance of HIV on sexual activity and satisfaction of women living with HIV…
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