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Record W2380937040 · doi:10.7870/cjcmh-2015-012

Issues and Options for Improving Services for Diverse Populations

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Kwame McKenzie

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Community Mental Health · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicMigration, Health and Trauma
Canadian institutionsCentre for Addiction and Mental Health
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMental healthEquity (law)CommissionMental illnessSurprisePsychological interventionImmigrationHealth equityPopulationBusinessPublic relationsService (business)Political scienceEconomic growthMedicinePsychologyEnvironmental healthNursingPsychiatryMarketingPublic healthEconomicsSocial psychology

Abstract

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International migration has led to increasingly diverse populations in many high-income countries. With approximately 250,000 newcomers each year, it should be no surprise that developing services that meet the needs of immigrants, refugees, ethnocultural, and racialized populations (IRER) is a major priority in the Mental Health Strategy for Canada. The published Canadian literature on the mental health of diverse populations concludes that differences in the exposure to social risk factors lead to differences in rates of illness for some groups. Whether rates of illness are high or low in a particular group, however, problems in accessing services are ubiquitous. Improving the service response will require political will, leadership, strategic planning, and data, and must include people with lived experience and the populations at highest risk. This paper outlines the “Issues and Options” paper commissioned by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, which used a thorough literature review and a national consultation to develop a model for service development. A health equity approach that utilizes local-population-based planning and the evidence-based interventions that are available for diverse groups could improve services for IRER groups in Canada.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.065
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.081
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.868
Threshold uncertainty score0.343

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0650.081
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.004
Bibliometrics0.0040.004
Science and technology studies0.0170.018
Scholarly communication0.0160.023
Open science0.0090.024
Research integrity0.0390.021
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0190.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.160
GPT teacher head0.429
Teacher spread0.269 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations11
Published2015
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