Immigrant women find health declines in Canada
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TORONTO -- Most immigrant women arrive in Canada describing themselves as being in good to excellent health, but their sense of positive health diminishes over time, a new study says.
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With a comprehensive immigration overhaul now perhaps years away, Latin American governments concerned with the well-being of their nationals living in this country are taking on an equally thorny issue: the U.S. health-care system.
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CERVICAL cancer rates are falling, but the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) says women are still missing out on routine screening.
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TUESDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDayNews) -- The longer immigrants live in the United States, the more likely they are to take on what has become an increasingly common American characteristic: obesity.
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Long-term exposure to American culture may be hazardous to immigrants&#39; health. A new study found that obesity is relatively rare in the foreign-born until they have lived in the
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OTTAWA - One-third fewer teenagers were pregnant in 2001 than three decades earlier, according to Statistics Canada. Pregnancies among women under the age of 20 fell from 45.
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[Health India]: Washington, Nov 9 : A Population Health Research Institute study carried out by researchers at the Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University, Canada that enrolled more than 15,500 people in China, India and Pakistan has found that
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WINNIPEG -- If Canadians face a shortage of doctors or nurses in a few years&#39; time, it will be the fault of the provinces, not Ottawa, federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said yesterday.
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Women who work are healthier than women who don&#39;t have jobs, suggests a study presented this week at the American Sociological Association meeting in San Francisco.
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Better detection and treatment are helping to reduce death from breast cancer in America, but poor, rural and minority women - especially Native Americans - face barriers that keep them from taking advantage of cancer screenings that could potentially
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For some thinkers, Canada is in decline, or at the very least, has fallen short of their aspirations.
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TORONTO - Health officials in at least two provinces are worried the increased demand for flu vaccine, triggered by publicity of the shortage in the United States, may lead to a shortfall in Canada this winter.
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Connecticut's Latinos are facing a health crisis, suffering higher rates of major illnesses such as cancer and diabetes while being less likely to have health insurance than other ethnic groups, according to a new report by a Hispanic advocacy group.
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Canada needs to improve social services  for its aboriginal population, particularly native women who  face persistent and marked inequalities, a United Nations panel  said on Friday.
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A national health report released Monday shows that progress in the nation&#39;s overall healthiness is slowing dramatically and even declining in some areas -- a trend that&#39;s reflected locally.
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OTTAWA - Female family doctors are poised to dominate the field in Canada, altering the type of services provided, according to a new study.
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Many immigrants to the United States soon get fat, joining an increasingly obese population in their adopted country, researchers said on Tuesday.