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Assessing barriers to health insurance and threats to equity in comparative perspective: the Health Insurance Access DatabaseAmelie Quesnel-Vallee
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, Purvis Hall, McGill University, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, QC H3A 1A2, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 12:107. 2012..To capture policy changes over time and by service in health systems regulation of public and private insurance, we propose a database containing explicit, standardized indicators of policy instruments...
Socioeconomic pathways to depressive symptoms in adulthood: evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979Amelie Quesnel-Vallee
International Research Infrastructure on Social inequalities in health IRIS, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Soc Sci Med 74:734-43. 2012..These results suggest that increasing educational opportunities may be an effective policy to break the intergenerational transmission of low socioeconomic status and poor mental health...
Is it really worse to have public health insurance than to have no insurance at all? Health insurance and adult health in the United StatesAmelie Quesnel-Vallee
McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
J Health Soc Behav 45:376-92. 2004..Conversely, the lack of health insurance coverage has a strong cumulative negative impact on adult health...
Temporary work and depressive symptoms: a propensity score analysisAmelie Quesnel-Vallee
McGill University, International Research Infrastructure on Social inequalities in health IRIS, 1020 Pine Av West, Montreal QC, Canada H3A1A2
Soc Sci Med 70:1982-7. 2010..Moreover, this difference is both statistically and substantively significant, as it represents a 50% increase from the average level of depressive symptoms in this population...
Different outcomes for different health measures in immigrants: evidence from a longitudinal analysis of the National Population Health Survey (1994-2006)Maninder Singh Setia
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 1A2, Canada
J Immigr Minor Health 14:156-65. 2012..Though, non-white immigrant women were less likely to have severe psychological distress through this 12 year period, they were the ones most likely to rate their health as poor...
Self-rated health in Canadian immigrants: analysis of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to CanadaManinder Singh Setia
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Health Place 17:658-70. 2011..Thus, women from countries lower on the development index appear at greater risk of poor SRH, and should be at the forefront of public health programmes aimed at new immigrants in Canada...
Access to health-care in Canadian immigrants: a longitudinal study of the National Population Health SurveyManinder Singh Setia
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Health Soc Care Community 19:70-9. 2011..02, 95% C.I.: 1.00-1.04). Visible minority female immigrants were least likely to report an unmet healthcare need. In general, there is little evidence that immigrants have worse access to health-care than the Canadian-born population...
Mental health consequences of unintended childlessness and unplanned births: gender differences and life course dynamicsKaterina Maximova
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Soc Sci Med 68:850-7. 2009..These findings are discussed in the context of previous literature in this area...
In the aftermath of Chaoulli v. Quebec: whose opinion prevailed?Amelie Quesnel-Vallee
Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montreal, Que
CMAJ 175:1051. 2006
Income and economic exclusion: do they measure the same concept?Emilie Renahy
McGill University, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, International Research Infrastructure on Social inequalities in health IRIS, Peterson Hall, Room 328, 3460 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC H3A 1X9, Canada
Int J Equity Health 11:4. 2012..abstract:..
Convergence of body mass index of immigrants to the Canadian-born population: evidence from the National Population Health Survey (1994-2006)Maninder Singh Setia
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Eur J Epidemiol 24:611-23. 2009..These results indicate that the loss of 'healthy immigrant effect' with regard to convergence of BMI to Canadian levels may not be experienced equally by all immigrants in Canada...
