Linguistic Minorities in Canada and Health

Bouchard, Louise; Desmeules, Martin

doi:10.12927/hcpol.2013.23589

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“…In this regard, other research has found that, in Quebec, fewer nurses than physicians speak English (Bouchard & Desmeules, 2013). The quotation above also corroborates a previous one that indicates that personnel do not always request the help of other English-speaking health care providers or official interpreters.…”

Section: The Caregivers' Experience Of Language Asymmetry During Healsupporting

confidence: 85%

“…Although several studies have examined communication problems between patients and physicians in particular (e.g., Armas et al, 2017), very few have examined communication problems between caregivers and the range of health personnel with whom caregivers interact. As well, although the relative health status of members of official minority language groups in Canada has been studied (e.g., Bouchard & Desmeules, 2013), very few have provided empirical investigations of the communication by health care providers with minority language groups.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Language Related Difficulties Experienced by Caregivers of English-Speaking Seniors in Quebec

Sanderson¹

2020

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Little research has examined communication problems between speakers of official minority languages (patients or caregivers) and health care providers. The objective of this research was to identify the types of issues experienced by English-speaking caregivers of seniors in Quebec, as they interact with French-speaking health care providers. The majority of the caregivers interviewed indicated that they were satisfied with physicians’ interaction with the seniors they cared for. However, problems included health care providers who do not or who refuse to speak English, hospice personnel with insufficient English, anxiety about speaking to personnel in French, traveling to receive services in English, acting as an informal interpreter, receiving written documents in French, scheduling appointments through French-only phone systems or receptionists, and discrimination. The main finding is that in Quebec, language asymmetry might create additional stresses for an English-speaking caregiver, who is already likely to be stressed because of their caregiver role.

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Section: The Caregivers' Experience Of Language Asymmetry During Healsupporting

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Language Related Difficulties Experienced by Caregivers of English-Speaking Seniors in Quebec

Sanderson¹

2020

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“…Colonial histories of extraction have, of course, been analyzed across many other international geographies, with deep historical power asymmetries resulting from scalar violence, including impacts on rural, remote, and, particularly, Indigenous populations and multiple local/global resistance efforts [133,136]. Interactions across regional cases have also underscored the need to recognize the social and health disparities in other contexts, including those experienced by small rural Francophone communities living in minority contexts [137], which are especially important considerations in the context of the New Brunswick regional case [138]. Within these contexts, the challenging question of 'who needs to do what differently' demands complex consideration.…”

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Addressing the Environmental, Community, and Health Impacts of Resource Development: Challenges across Scales, Sectors, and Sites

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Work that addresses the cumulative impacts of resource extraction on environment, community, and health is necessarily large in scope. This paper presents experiences from initiating research at this intersection and explores implications for the ambitious, integrative agenda of planetary health. The purpose is to outline origins, design features, and preliminary insights from our intersectoral and international project, based in Canada and titled the “Environment, Community, Health Observatory” (ECHO) Network. With a clear emphasis on rural, remote, and Indigenous communities, environments, and health, the ECHO Network is designed to answer the question: How can an Environment, Community, Health Observatory Network support the integrative tools and processes required to improve understanding and response to the cumulative health impacts of resource development? The Network is informed by four regional cases across Canada where we employ a framework and an approach grounded in observation, “taking notice for action”, and collective learning. Sharing insights from the foundational phase of this five-year project, we reflect on the hidden and obvious challenges of working across scales, sectors, and sites, and the overlap of generative and uncomfortable entanglements associated with health and resource development. Yet, although intersectoral work addressing the cumulative impacts of resource extraction presents uncertainty and unresolved tensions, ultimately we argue that it is worth staying with the trouble.

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“…In the Canadian province of Quebec, Anglophones and Allophones have better observed health despite being a linguistic minority with respect to the predominant Francophones, who account for over 80% of the population (Auger et al 2016;Bouchard and Desmeules 2013;Trempe et al 2013;Statistics Canada 2007;Burrows et al 2013Burrows et al , 2016Auger et al 2012a). This finding is counterintuitive as minority linguistic groups tend to have poorer health status due to reduced opportunities in education and employment, social adaptation difficulties, or language barriers to access to services (Bouchard and Desmeules 2013), though exceptions do exist (Sipila and Martikainen 2009). The causes of the inverse linguistic health disparity in Quebec are not fully understood but hypotheses include differences in socioeconomic status, social capital, and health-related behaviour and lifestyle differences (Auger et al 2012b(Auger et al , 2016Bouchard and Desmeules 2013;Trempe et al 2013;Lussier and Trempe 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This finding is counterintuitive as minority linguistic groups tend to have poorer health status due to reduced opportunities in education and employment, social adaptation difficulties, or language barriers to access to services (Bouchard and Desmeules 2013), though exceptions do exist (Sipila and Martikainen 2009). The causes of the inverse linguistic health disparity in Quebec are not fully understood but hypotheses include differences in socioeconomic status, social capital, and health-related behaviour and lifestyle differences (Auger et al 2012b(Auger et al , 2016Bouchard and Desmeules 2013;Trempe et al 2013;Lussier and Trempe 2013). Anglophones have had a persisting health advantage over Francophones, though the magnitude has decreased over time; this decrease has been attributed to corresponding decreases in the vitality and socioeconomic status of the Anglophone community.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%