Recipients
Louise Racine
One challenge confronting health care professionals in Saskatchewan is the provision of health care to immigrants and refugees from non-Western or non-European countries. Serious health issues have arisen among some newcomers of these populations. This is why studying the readiness of a health care system attempting to address these issues deserves further exploration. Racine’s research will explore perceptions of health and illness among men and women from Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, Sri Lanka and Colombia. She will look at their perceptions of health, illness and access to health services, document how immigrants use health services, and identify specific health needs. Racine anticipates that her research findings will illustrate how race, ethnicity and gender intersect in shaping immigrants’ perceptions of health. Racine also anticipates that her research will also integrate immigrant perspectives into the design and delivery of culturally sensitive health services.
Racine’s research aligns well with Saskatchewan’s Health Research Strategy. It focuses on health systems and policy research, a priority area within the Strategy.
