本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛The Department of Geography at Queen’s University is conducting a study on immigrant physician experience in Toronto. This is a project funded by CERIS (Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement). You are sincerely invited to participate in this important study.
The research project aims to explore the geographical and socio-cultural barriers facing Mainland Chinese immigrants in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) with regard to accessing primary care physicians, including “family physicians, general internists, general pediatricians, and some obstetrician-gynecologists”.Mainland Chinese, accounting for 2.9% of the Toronto CMA’s total 2001 population, are the most important source of immigrants to Canada since 1998. Because these Mainland Chinese immigrants have not been in Canada long, and because they come from a different culture with a different healthcare system, one of the greatest challenges they face in their new home is access to primary care physicians. Toronto’s primary care physicians are a particularly diverse group, speaking 100 different languages and dialects other than French and English, including the seven Chinese dialects (e.g., Cantonese, Mandarin and Hakka), spoken by more than 700 physicians and specialists– or over 6% of those in the Toronto CMA. The characteristics of Mainland Chinese immigrants and the diversity of the physicians provide an excellent opportunity to explore issues of spatial equity in immigrant healthcare access
I thank you in advance for participating in this important study. We are happy to send you a summary report on this research if you desire.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
The research project aims to explore the geographical and socio-cultural barriers facing Mainland Chinese immigrants in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) with regard to accessing primary care physicians, including “family physicians, general internists, general pediatricians, and some obstetrician-gynecologists”.Mainland Chinese, accounting for 2.9% of the Toronto CMA’s total 2001 population, are the most important source of immigrants to Canada since 1998. Because these Mainland Chinese immigrants have not been in Canada long, and because they come from a different culture with a different healthcare system, one of the greatest challenges they face in their new home is access to primary care physicians. Toronto’s primary care physicians are a particularly diverse group, speaking 100 different languages and dialects other than French and English, including the seven Chinese dialects (e.g., Cantonese, Mandarin and Hakka), spoken by more than 700 physicians and specialists– or over 6% of those in the Toronto CMA. The characteristics of Mainland Chinese immigrants and the diversity of the physicians provide an excellent opportunity to explore issues of spatial equity in immigrant healthcare access
I thank you in advance for participating in this important study. We are happy to send you a summary report on this research if you desire.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net