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Record W4413749484 · doi:10.1177/2752535x251371127

An Integrated Methodological Approach to Address Immigrants’ Complex Health Issues: Lessons From the CAN-HEAL Study

2025· article· en· W4413749484 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Sarah Elshahat, Tina Moffat, Zena Shamli Oghli, Yasmine Belahlou, Yumnah Jafri, Salima Zabian, Sarah A.H. Curtay

Bibliographic record

VenueCommunity Health Equity Research & Policy · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHealth disparities and outcomes
Canadian institutionsWestern UniversityMcMaster University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research CouncilSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsImmigrationEngineering ethicsSociologyPsychologyData scienceManagement scienceComputer sciencePolitical scienceEngineering

Abstract

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Community-based participatory research (CBPR) and integrated knowledge translation (IKT) are methodological approaches that emphasize the value of equitable partnerships between researchers and community partners. The main difference between these approaches is that CBPR is advocacy-centered and aims at addressing inequities by instigating systemic and policy changes, whilst IKT is application- and upstream solution-oriented especially within the context of health and social care improvement. Previous studies that have used a collaborative approach mainly focused on either CBPR or IKT to a lesser extent.The CAN-HEAL project employed an innovative methodological approach that integrates CBPR and IKT to address mental health needs among Arab immigrants and refugees in Ontario, Canada. Integral to this approach are three pillars: (1) establishment of a multi-level community partnership; (2) adherence to cultural sensitivity principles; and (3) commitment to social justice and application. The use of an CBPR-IKT approach led to numerous successes, including the co-development of a holistic upstream-downstream-based health promotion action plan to tackle inequities. This approach was associated with different challenges (e.g., limited resources), which were mitigated by employing certain enablers (e.g., assistance from community leaders). Based on lessons from this project, recommendations are made for governmental agencies and academic institutions to advance CBPR-IKT research to promote the sustainability and well-being of communities.

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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)0.070
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.015
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.716
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0700.015
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.004
Science and technology studies0.0180.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0050.002
Research integrity0.0000.005
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 head0.789
GPT teacher head0.695
Teacher spread0.094 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2025
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