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ArticleBMJ open2021

Immigrant status, gender and work disability duration: findings from a linked, retrospective cohort of workers' compensation and immigration data from British Columbia, Canada.

Niloufar Saffari, Sonja Senthanar, Mieke Koehoorn, Kimberlyn McGrail, Christopher McLeod

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Article in BMJ open, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  3. Differences in Work Disability Duration for Immigrants and Canadian-Born Workers in British Columbia, Canada.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Niloufar SaffariSchool of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Sonja SenthanarSchool of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3406-5446
Mieke KoehoornSchool of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5376-7489
Kimberlyn McGrailSchool of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9349-1915
Christopher McLeodSchool of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada chris.mcleod@ubc.ca.ORCID 0000-0001-9268-3694
University of British Columbia · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo compare differences in work disability durations of immigrant men and women injured at work to comparable Canadian-born injured workers in British Columbia, Canada.

methodsData on accepted workers compensation claims and immigration status from 1995 and 2012 were used to compare the number of work disability days paid at the 25%, 50% and 75% for immigrant and Canadian-born injured workers stratified by gender and recency of immigration.

resultsImmigrant workers comprised 8.9% (78 609) of the cohort. In adjusted quantile regression models, recent and established immigrant women received 1.3 (0.8, 1.9) and 4.0 (3.4, 4.6) more paid disability days at the 50% of the disability distribution than Canadian-born counterparts. For recent and established immigrant men, this difference was 2.4 (2.2, 2.6) and 2.7 (2.4, 4.6). At the 75%, this difference increased for recent immigrant men and established immigrant men and women but declined for recent immigrant women.

conclusionsInjured immigrants receive more work disability days than their Canadian-born counterparts except for recent immigrant women. Both immigrant status and gender matter in understanding health disparities in work disability after work injury. KEYWORDS WORK DISABILITY: immigrant health; linked administrative data.

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Emigrants and ImmigrantsWorkers' CompensationBritish ColumbiaCanadaEmigration and ImmigrationFemaleHumansMaleRetrospective Studiesepidemiologyoccupational & industrial medicinepublic health

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