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. 2013 Nov 1;104(Suppl 6):S49–S54. [Article in French] doi: 10.17269/cjph.104.3490

Validation de l’équité d’accès des CLOSM aux professionnels de la santé dans les régions sociosanitaires du Canada

Jan Warnke 110,, Louise Bouchard 210
PMCID: PMC6973703  PMID: 24300321

Abstract

Objective

Our research uses a regional summary indicator (IHPOLM) to measure the capacity of the health system to provide equitable access to health professionals for 2 million Official Language Minority Community (OLMC) members dispersed across 104 health regions in Canada.

Method

The summary indicator IHPOLM compares the official language minority and the official language majority potential access to health professionals. The IHPOLM indicator uses 22 professional health care occupations, representing 79% of the health care workforce in Canada, who communicate directly with their clientele for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes (Statistics Canada, 2006).

Results

The IHPOLM indicator revealed that the OLMC population is at a disadvantage in potential access to health professionals capable of providing services in the minority language when compared to the majority language population in 10 of the 13 Canadian provinces/territories. OLMC members are disadvantaged in 13 out of 14 health regions in Ontario, in 16 out of 18 in Québec and in 3 out of 7 in New Brunswick.

Conclusion

The summary regional indicator IHPOLM identified OLMC health care access inequalities between the official language minority population and the majority language population in the health care system across the health regions in Canada. The more detailed analysis of IHPOLM for individual health occupations will further improve our knowledge of Official Language Minority Community health access inequalities.

Key Words: Health disparities, access to health services, health geography, official language minority

Footnotes

Remerciements: Cette recherche a pu être réalisée grâce au financement des Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada pour le projet Validation d’une mesure d’équité d’accès géographiques aux services de santé pour les CLOSM, du McGill Training and Retention of Health Professionals Project et du Réseau de recherche sur la santé des francophones en situation minoritaire (RISF-IRSC). Nous remercions Laura-Lee Bolger pour la réalisation de la cartographie.

Conflit d’intérêts: Aucun à déclarer.

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