In the past 30 years Denmark has experienced immigration from non-Western countries, but little is known about immigrants' use of health care. The purpose of this study was to compare and quantify the contact patterns with general practice and casualty departments of immigrants of non-Western origin and non-immigrants in Copenhagen City, Denmark. Descriptive register-based study including 2,041...

Is Temporary Agency Employment a Stepping Stone for Immigrants? We investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment for immigrants to Denmark using the timing-of-events approach. We provide evidence of large positive in-treatment effects, particularly for non-western immigrants and immigrants arriving during childhood. Post-treatment effects are fairly high for male non...

Owing to the capricious political and economic conditions of Afghanistan during the past few decades, the burden of communicable disease, especially bloodborne and sexually transmitted infections, has been steadily mounting in this population. Afghan refugees who sought asylum and settled in foreign countries encountered many a barrier to standard health care, which led to the establishment of ...

Introduction: According to the World Health Organisation ‘participation’, meaning involvement in everyday occupations, has a positive influence on health and wellbeing and lack thereof can lead to negative health consequences. Occupational therapy scholars believe this phenomenon needs exploring with attention to context. Variability is apparent in the way participation has bee...

Many real-world optimization problems are subject to dynamic environments that require an optimization algorithm to track the optimum during changes. Ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms have proved to be powerful methods to address combinatorial dynamic optimization problems (DOPs), once they are enhanced properly. The integration of ACO algorithms with immigrants schemes showed promising ...

in 2010, the ministry of education of one of the most diverse provinces in canada initiated the implementation of a support program for newcomer students to facilitate their academic, linguistic, social, and cultural adaptation in french speaking schools. this longitudinal multiple case study will document how immigrant parents support their children’s learning, and create a home environment co...

Pakistan and Afghanistan share the contiguity of neighbourhood bonds Islam. Despite linguistic, cultural traditional similarities, their relations have remained in a spin. are geographically so dependent on each other that effects war peace could be felt both sides borders. Many factors involved upsetting these relations: hostility Afghan rulers tilt towards India since Pakistan’s independence;...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are differences in self-rated health by immigration and generational status, and the role of health literacy in this relationship. METHODS Data were from the Canadian component of the 2003 International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS) undertaken by Statistics Canada. The sample comprised a total of 22,818 persons, of...