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Abstract English and French are both official languages in Canada. Whereas official language minorities (English speakers in Quebec, French speakers in the rest of Canada) face healthcare barriers and poor health outcomes, autistic individuals and their families also struggle with accessing healthcare. We examined healthcare access at the intersection of these groups: the autistic community, including English minority-language speakers from Quebec, French...
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Ethnolinguistically diverse 2S/LGBTQI+ (two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex) populations have unique healthcare needs and experience health inequities compared to their cisgender or heterosexual peers. This community-based participatory study sought to describe the profile and healthcare needs and experiences of official language minority French-speaking 2S/LGBTQI+ adults in Manitoba. Participants (N = 80) reported that gender and sexual identity were often...
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Background The study explores the language barriers between two language minority populations and healthcare professionals in the Volta Region of Ghana. Methods An interpretive description with a qualitative approach to data collection and analysis was used. This study was carried out in the Tafi-Atome and Avatime-Vane communities, the Hohoe Municipal Hospital and the Margaret Marquart Catholic Hospital in the Kpando Municipality. In all, 46 respondents comprising 19 purposively sampled...
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Little research has examined communication problems between speakers of official minority languages (patients or caregivers) and health care providers. The objective of this research was to identify the types of issues experienced by English-speaking caregivers of seniors in Quebec, as they interact with French-speaking health care providers. The majority of the caregivers interviewed indicated that they were satisfied with physicians’ interaction with the seniors they cared for. However,...
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Abstract Background There is a paucity of knowledge about the healthcare attitudes and practices of French-speaking immigrants originating from Sub-Saharan Africa (FISSA) living in minority settings. The purpose of this study was to characterize FISSA healthcare experiences and confidence in the malaria-related knowledge of health professionals in Edmonton. Methods A structured survey was used to examine a cohort of 382 FISSA (48% female; 52% male) living in Edmonton. FISSA general...
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