Difficulties accessing health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: examining the intersectionality between immigrant status and visible minority status

Difficulties accessing health care services can result in delaying in seeking and obtaining treatment. Although these difficulties are disproportionately experienced among vulnerable groups, we know very little about how the intersectionality of realities experienced by immigrants and visible minori...

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Published in:International journal for equity in health 2021-12, Vol.20 (1), p.255-255, Article 255
Main Authors: Etowa, Josephine, Sano, Yujiro, Hyman, Ilene, Dabone, Charles, Mbagwu, Ikenna, Ghose, Bishwajit, Osman, Muna, Mohamoud, Hindia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Canada
Canadians
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Crowdsourcing
Emergencies
Emigrants and Immigrants
Epidemics
Health care
Health care access
Health services
Health Services Accessibility
Health services utilization
Humans
Immigrants
Intersectional Framework
Intersectionality
Mental disorders
Mental health
Minority & ethnic groups
Native North Americans
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
Sexual orientation
Social aspects
Statistical methods
Variables
Visible minorities
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Summary:Difficulties accessing health care services can result in delaying in seeking and obtaining treatment. Although these difficulties are disproportionately experienced among vulnerable groups, we know very little about how the intersectionality of realities experienced by immigrants and visible minorities can impact their access to health care services since the pandemic. Using Statistics Canada's Crowdsourcing Data: Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians-Experiences of Discrimination, we combine two variables (i.e., immigrant status and visible minority status) to create a new variable called visible minority immigrant status. This multiplicative approach is commonly used in intersectionality research, which allows us to explore disadvantages experienced by minorities with multiplicative identities. Main results show that, compared to white native-born, visible minority immigrants are less likely to report difficulties accessing non-emergency surgical care (OR = 0.55, p 
ISSN:1475-9276
1475-9276
DOI:10.1186/s12939-021-01593-1