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Health Promotion in Immigrant and Minority Populations - Coggle Diagram
Health Promotion in Immigrant and Minority Populations
Applying the social determinants of health framework reveals that Canada’s immigrant population encounters complex and intersecting barriers that significantly hinder their engagement in health promotion practices.
1.1. Migrating-related stressors can complicate the uptake of health promotion practices
Lack of familiarity with the healthcare system
Language barriers
Limited knowledge of disease prevention
1.2. Racialization of the labour market can result in economic barriers to health promotion
Discrimination
Underemployment and lower income
Inability to afford nutritional food
1.3. Gender roles and expectations within immigrant families can disproportionately affect women’s health
Increased caregiving responsibilities
Traditional patriarchal norms and values
To effectively promote health among Canada’s immigrant population, various programs have employed a comprehensive, culturally sensitive approach to target the diverse social determinants without imposing Westernization.
2.1. Successfully tailored programs
Delivered in multiple languages
Culturally relevant
Conveniently located
2.2. Emphasized mental health and wellbeing
Culturally competent providers
Community capacity-building workshops
Combat stigma
To decrease the health disparities between the immigrant and non-immigrant populations in Canada, health promotion must establish effective channels for reaching immigrant communities.
3.1. Collaborate with influential members of immigrant communities
Front-line workers of community organizations
Traditional healers
3.2. Provide health resources at religious venues
Local temples
Mosques
3.3. Leverage ethnocultural media outlets
Newspapers
Television
Social media
Mitigation strategies for global pandemics, such as COVID-19, often overlook the importance of using a social determinants of health approach to understand how these pandemics disproportionately impact minority groups.
4.1. Enhances structural inequities
Employment and working conditions
Housing stability
4.2. Catalyzes gender-based violence
“Stay at home” orders
Unstable social and protective networks
Global pandemic recovery plans should be tailored to target the most impacted communities to ensure an effective and sustained response.
5.1. Requires an intersectional lens
Race
Gender
Sex
Migration trajectories
5.2. Needs evidence-based policies
Anti-racism training
Representative hiring practices
Inclusive mission statements
5.3. Provides services to reduce health risks
Affordable childcare
Respite care
5.4. Addresses violence
Support services
Empower women