Black Health

Autisme et soutien social dans des familles d’immigration récente : l’expérience de parents originaires du Maghreb Autism and social support in recently immigrated families : experience of parents from Maghreb

July 1, 2013

Cette étude qualitative exploratoire analyse l’impact d’un diagnostic d’autisme sur les réseaux de soutien social de parents originaires du Maghreb,nouvellement immigrants au Québec, et ayant un enfant diagnostiqué avec un trouble envahissant du développement. Des entrevues semi-structurées ont été réalisées avec dix parents et une observation participante a été effectuée lors de rencontres de soutien…
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Associations Between HIV-Related Stigma, Racial Discrimination, Gender Discrimination, and Depression Among HIV-Positive African, Caribbean, and Black Women in Ontario, Canada.

July 1, 2013

African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) women are greatly overrepresented in new HIV infections in comparison with Canada’s general population. Social and structural factors such as HIV-related stigma, gender discrimination, and racial discrimination converge to increase vulnerability to HIV infection among ACB women by reducing access to HIV prevention services. Stigma and discrimination also present barriers…
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Optimizing Diabetes Literacy: Lessons from African Canadians in Calgary about Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis

May 13, 2013

Objective: With the aim of optimizing diabetes education, type 2 diabetes awareness, primary prevention and secondary prevention, we studied how African Canadians experience type 2 diabetes. Specifically, we studied stories told by African Canadians living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, about significant events and experiences at the time of their diagnosis with type 2 diabetes. Methods:…
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Race, gender, class, sexuality (RGCS) and hypertension

April 24, 2013

Informed by intersectionality theory, a tradition that theorizes intersecting power relations of racism, patriarchy, classism and heterosexism, this paper investigates the degree to which race, gender, class and sexuality manifest distinct and interconnected associations with self-reported hypertension in nationally-representative survey data from Canada. Binary logistic regression is used to model the main effects of, and…
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Gender and Ethnicity Differences in HIV-related Stigma Experienced by People Living with HIV in Ontario, Canada

December 27, 2012

This study aimed to understand gender and ethnicity differences in HIV-related stigma experienced by 1026 HIV-positive individuals living in Ontario, Canada that were enrolled in the OHTN Cohort Study. Total and subscale HIV-related stigma scores were measured using the revised HIV-related Stigma Scale. Correlates of total stigma scores were assessed in univariate and multivariate linear…
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Influenza vaccination coverage across ethnic groups in Canada

October 16, 2012

Background: The success of influenza vaccination campaigns may be suboptimal if sub-groups of the population face unique barriers or have mis conceptions about vaccination. We conducted a national study to estimate influenza vaccine coverage across 12 ethnic groups in Canada to assess the presence of ethnic disparities. Methods: We pooled responses to the Canadian Community…
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Expressed racial identity and hypertension in a telephone survey sample from Toronto and Vancouver, Canada: do socioeconomic status, perceived discrimination and psychosocial stress explain the relatively high risk of hypertension for Black Canadians?

October 3, 2012

Introduction: Canadian research on racial health inequalities that foregrounds socially constructed racial identities and social factors which can explain consequent racial health inequalities is rare. This paper adopts a social typology of salient racial identities in contemporary Canada, empirically documents consequent racial inequalities in hypertension in an original survey dataset from Toronto and Vancouver, Canada,…
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Pathways to Forensic Mental Health Care in Toronto: A Comparison of European, African–Caribbean, and Other Ethnoracial Groups in Toronto

July 1, 2012

Objective: To describe pathways taken to care by a sample of patients in a secure forensic unit who have been found not criminally responsible or unfit to stand trial, and to investigate the pathways taken by patients within 3 ethnoracial subgroups of origin: European, African or Caribbean, and Other. Method: Fifty patients from secure forensic…
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Beyond Child Protection: Afro-Caribbean Service Users of Child Welfare

July 1, 2012

The literature on the overrepresentation of Black children in the child welfare system is well established, yet little is known about the experiences of Afro-Caribbean families as service users. This article draws on qualitative data from in-depth interviews with Afro-Caribbean mothers and youths to understand how they perceive and experience the child welfare system. The…
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Meanings of food, eating and health among African Nova Scotians: ‘certain things aren’t meant for Black folk’.

July 1, 2012

Objective: Most research on food, ethnicity and health in Canada is focused on the dietary acculturation of first of second generation migrants. ‘Failure’ to adopt nutritional guidelines for healthy eating is generally understood as lack of education or persistence of cultural barriers. In this study we explore the meanings of food, health, and well-being embedded…
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