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Migrations and gradations : reappraising the health profile of immigrants to Canada

2005· dissertation· en· W396006483 on OpenAlex

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueBrock University Digital Repository (Brock University) · 2005
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicMigration, Health and Trauma
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsImmigrationGeographyArchaeology
DOInot available

Abstract

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New immigrants to Canada typically have a more favourable health profile than
\nthe non-immigrant population. This phenomenon, known as the 'healthy immigrant
\neffect', has been attributed to both the socioeconomic advantage (ie. educational
\nattainment, occupational opportunity) of non-refugee immigrants and existing screening
\nprotocols that admit only the healthiest of persons to Canada. It has been suggested that
\nthis health advantage diminishes as the time of residence in Canada increases, due in part
\nto the adoption of health-risk behaviours such as alcohol and cigarette use, an increase in
\nexcess body weight, and declining rates of physical activity. However, the majority of
\nhealth research concerning immigrants to Canada has been limited to cross-sectional
\nstudies (Dunn & Dyck, 2000; Newbold & Danforth, 2003), which may mask an
\nimmigrant-specific cohort effect. Furthermore, the practice of aggregating foreign-bom
\npersons by geographical regions or treating all immigrants as a homogeneous group may
\nalso obfuscate intra-immigrant differences in health. Accordingly, this study uses the
\nCanadian National Population Health Surveys (NPHS) and data from the United Nations
\nDevelopment Program (UNDP) to prospectively evaluate factors that predict health status
\namong immigrants to Canada. Each immigrant in the NPHS was linked to the UNDP
\nHuman Development Index of their country of birth, which uses a combined measure of
\nhealth, education, and per capita income of the populace. The six-year change in health
\nfunction, psychological distress, and self-rated health were considered from a population
\nhealth perspective (Evans, 1994), using generalized-estimating equations (GEE) to
\nexamine the compounding effect of past and recent predictors of health. Demographic

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.639
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.229 · 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