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A Canadian peer-reviewed journal of population health and health services research
April 2019
Healthy immigrant effect by immigrant category in Canada
by Chaohui Lu and Edward Ng
In 2016, immigrants to Canada accounted for 7.5 million people, or almost 22% of the Canadian population. According to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), almost one million immigrants will be admitted from 2018 to 2020. Given the growth in Canada’s immigrant population, it becomes increasingly important to monitor immigrant health. The well-established literature on the Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE) finds immigrants to be healthier than the Canadian-born population at their time of arrival, but observes that this health advantage, possibly due to difficulties in adjusting to new environment, stress and/or adoption of risky health behaviors, diminishes over time. Meanwhile, in addition to the Canadian immigration point system, which tends towards the selection of individuals with higher human capital, such as education and language skills for the economic class of immigrants, systematic selection through medical screening tests and positive self-selection were two of the important explanations for the initial health advantage of most immigrants.
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Recent trends in prostate cancer in Canada
by Allana G. LeBlanc, Alain Demers, and Amanda Shaw
Part of a man’s reproductive and urinary systems, the prostate is a small gland just below the bladder. Changes in the cells of the prostate can lead to benign conditions such as prostatitis or benign prostate hyperplasia, pre-cancerous conditions such as prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, or prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer in Canadian men, followed by colorectal, lung, and bladder cancers. Recent analyses from the Canadian Cancer Society suggest that 1 in 7 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime and that 1 in 29 will die from the disease.
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