Although recent immigrants to Canada are healthier than Canadian born (ie, the Healthy
Immigrant Effect), they experience a deterioration in their health status which is partly due to …

There is a widespread perception that the increasing proportion of female physicians in most
developed countries is contributing to a primary care service shortage because females …

Objectives Community health workers (CHWs) have been deployed to provide health-related
services to their fellow community members and to guide them through often complex …

Objective To estimate the lost investment of domestically educated doctors migrating from
sub-Saharan African countries to Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United …

This commentary addresses the critically important role of health workers in their countries’
more immediate responses to COVID-19 outbreaks and provides policy recommendations for …

… However, Bourgeault and Mulvale have highlighted the efforts of regulatory agencies to break
down exclusive professional boundaries on health teams given that overlapping scopes of …

There has been a renewed interest in collaborative models of health care delivered by ‘interdisciplinary
teams’ of providers across several health care systems. This growing …

Migrants are often proactive about their health, and immunisation uptake might be high if
offered in a culturally competent environment. Vaccine-preventable diseases carry a high …

Background This paper arises from a four-country study that sought to better understand the
drivers of skilled health worker migration, its consequences, and the strategies countries …

… to / La correspondance concernant cet article doit être adressées à: Ivy Lynn Bourgeault …
into the existing resource of immigrant care workers (Bourgeault, 2008 ; CIHI). The use of …