article explores race and immigrant disparities in health and health care access across the two countries. The study focus was …

Introduction: Canada's annual immigrant intake is increasingly composed of visible minorities, with 59% of immigrants … Canadian women's use of cancer screening. We use recent population health surveys to analyze immigrant and native-born women …

The existence of a healthy immigrant effect – where immigrants are on average healthier than the native-born – is now a … immigrant self-selection where healthier and wealthier people tend to be migrants. We explore the last two of these explanations … for the healthy immigrant effect by examining the health outcomes, health behaviours, and socio-economic characteristics …

after controlling for a standard set of behavioral risk factors such as smoking, drinking, and obesity and are equally true …