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Health Equity
The Health Equity Area of Excellence (AoE) provides leadership in the creation of a community of scholars within the Faculty of Nursing that foster discourse and inquiry to examine issues related to social determinants of health as conditions for social advantage/ disadvantage and systematic disparities in health.
Items in this Collection
- 3Migration
- 2Migrant Workers
- 2Temporary Foreign Workers
- 1Canada
- 1Foreign Workers
- 1Foreign-Trained Nurses
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Human resources for health challenges in Nigeria and nurse migration
2016
Dada, F. O., Adelakun, F. E., Salami, B.
The emigration of sub-Saharan African health professionals to developed Western nations is an aspect of increasing global mobility. This paper focuses on the human resources for health challenges in Nigeria and the emigration of nurses from Nigeria as the country faces mounting human resources...
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Interrogating the Impact of Recent Changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program on Temporary Foreign Workers in Alberta
Download2016-03-22
Following a peak in the number of migrants admitted to Canada via its Temporary Foreign Worker Program, the program underwent significant changes in 2014 and 2015 that will undoubtedly affect the lives of temporary foreign workers in Canada. These changes include a limitation on the length of...
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The challenges encountered by immigrant-serving agencies in addressing the health of temporary foreign workers
The challenges encountered by immigrant-serving agencies in addressing the health of temporary foreign workers
Download2016
Meherali, S., Kirova, A., Salami, B., Nsaliwa, C., Chiu, Y., Hegadoren, K. M.
This study sought to examine the challenges encountered by immigrant-serving agencies in meeting the health needs of temporary foreign workers and their families in one Canadian province. We interviewed eleven representatives of immigrant serving agencies and two policy makers. Some of the...