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Occupational Health of Newcomers and Immigrants to Canada

2013· article· en· W2411017345 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Iffath Unissa Syed

Bibliographic record

VenueEurope PMC (PubMed Central) · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicEmployment and Welfare Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMental healthImmigrationOccupational safety and healthEthnic groupPsychological interventionSocial determinants of healthPolitical scienceDemographic economicsMedicinePublic healthPsychiatry
DOInot available

Abstract

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Previous discourses in occupational health and medicine suggest that newcomer and immigrant groups experience high rates of work-related illness and injuries, possibly resulting from working conditions, social exclusion, as well as participation in precarious work. Often, social circumstances lead to adverse health outcomes including mental, psycho-social, and physiological. This investigation's aim was to gather a rich understanding of the evidence for work-related illness, morbidity and mortality among immigrant and newcomer groups from urban areas such as Montreal, Toronto, and the Greater Toronto Area, locations which have been popular destinations for migrant settlement and labor market trends in the last two decades. This study focused on elements from the political economy, social determinants of health, and social justice lenses to examine the concept of the new visible minority labor diaspora in the Canadian context, evidence for occupational disease acquired in the workplace among these vulnerable groups, and how such illness intersects culture, employment background, and gender. Evidence of income disparities from the literature was compared to Statistics Canada 2006 census data and adjusted for inflation. This analysis confirmed the negative effects of resettlement stress and precarious working conditions experienced by ethnic and racial minorities. Work-related musculoskeletal conditions, workplace violence, mental health issues due to overt discrimination and profiling, as well as exposures to second hand-tobacco smoke have been described. In addition, large disparities in earnings were widely reported. The implications of these findings has led to suggested interventions to address these issues.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.198
Threshold uncertainty score0.526

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.039
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread0.281 · 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 teacher head, 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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