Waiting for care: Effects of Ontario's 3-month waiting period for OHIP on landed immigrants

R Goel, G Bloch, P Caulford - Canadian Family Physician, 2013 - cfp.ca
Objective To describe the experiences of a group of new immigrants and caregivers of new
immigrants who were subject to the 3-month waiting period for the Ontario Health Insurance …

Negotiating precarity: Recent immigrants' perceptions of waiting for public healthcare in Ontario, Canada

A Niraula, N Ratti, M Colley, M Rosenberg, E Ghassemi… - Health Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Canada is widely known for its universal publicly funded health care system. While its health
care system is an important part of Canadian identity, recent immigrants living in some …

Ontario healthcare coverage eligibility among new permanent residents: a scoping review

A Bobadilla, T Orchard, L Magalhães… - Journal of Immigrant & …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
New permanent residents to Ontario can experience difficulties accessing health services
due to the 3-month residency requirement for provincial healthcare coverage. This scoping …

Climbing the walls: structural barriers to accessing primary care for refugee newcomers in Canada

B Miedema, R Hamilton, J Easley - Canadian Family Physician, 2008 - cfp.ca
Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia, newcomers are required to wait 3 months before
they can enrol in a provincial health insurance program. Many newcomers purchase private …

Access to primary health care by new and established immigrants in Canada

G Higginbottom, J Safipour - … of Family Medicine & Community Health, 2015 - diva-portal.org
Aim: To investigate barriers related to access to primary health care by new andestablished
immigrants in a western Canadian province. Background: The immigrant population …

A comparison of health access between permanent residents, undocumented immigrants and refugee claimants in Toronto, Canada

RM Campbell, AG Klei, BD Hodges, D Fisman… - Journal of Immigrant and …, 2014 - Springer
Understanding the immigrant experience accessing healthcare is essential to improving
their health. This qualitative study reports on experiences seeking healthcare for three …

Describing differences among recent immigrants and long-standing residents waiting for long-term care: A population-based retrospective cohort study

D Qureshi, C Schumacher, R Talarico… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives Immigrants often face many unique cultural and logistical challenges in their
health care that differ from nonimmigrants. We sought to describe and compare …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying barriers to healthcare access for new immigrants: a qualitative study in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

M Pandey, R Kamrul, CR Michaels… - Journal of Immigrant and …, 2022 - Springer
Despite universal healthcare, immigrants often face unique challenges accessing
healthcare. Employing an interpretative phenomenological analysis approach, four focus …

“I spent nine years looking for a doctor”: exploring access to health care among immigrants in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

J Asanin, K Wilson - Social science & medicine, 2008 - Elsevier
There is a growing body of research in Canada and from other countries acknowledging that
immigrants face barriers in accessing health care services. As immigrants make up an …

The role of clinics in determining older recent immigrants' use of health services

A Vega, T Porteny, E Aguila - Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2018 - Springer
Immigrants are ineligible for federally-funded Medicaid in the US until at least 5 years after
arrival. There is little information on where they receive care in light of this restriction. Using …