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HEALTH-CANADA: HEALTH CARE WORKERS FAULTED IN NEW IMMIGRANT STUDY.
by Paul Weinberg
TORONTO, Jul. 2 (IPS/GIN) -- Canadian healthcare professionals need to be better trained to handle the stress, depression and even trauma experienced by immigrant and refugee women in an increasingly diverse Canadian society, says a Nigerian-born Canadian sociologist in a new report.
"Basically, what we are saying is that the health sector needs to be culturally sensitive, needs to be patient, literally give time to multicultural women, talking about their diseases and symptoms," said Francisca Isi Omorodion, the co-author of the study, 'Women and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Moving Research to Policy', and president of the Immigrant, Refugee and Visible Minority Women of Saskatchewan.
Funded by the Canadian government-supported Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence, the research comprised detailed interviews with 36 people, including immigrant, refugee and women of colour, local health…
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