Racialized Groups and Health Status
This research agenda was established in 2004 with a grant from the Canadian Institute of Health Research. Four research working groups (RWG) were established. The working groups included researchers, academics, agency staff and community members. The research projects and research working groups explore the relationship between race and other determinants of health for racialized communities, such as income, access to healthcare, discrimination, and housing.
Our research on racialized inequalities suggests that race-based discrimination is a primary determinant of health for racialized communities (for Canadian born and immigrants).
Income Security, Race and Health Research Working Group
This research working group explores the linkages between income security, race and health. Research team members are working with residents of the Black Creek neighbourhood in North York to investigate the root causes and the social/health impacts of racialized poverty.
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eXposed Photovoice Project
The ‘Exposed’ Photovoice project is a community based, arts-informed research project conducted in 2008 by the Income Security, Race and Health research working group. The main goal of the project was to use an arts-based research method called photovoice to ‘expose’ the social impacts of poverty on low-income families living in Black Creek – a low-income area located in the north-west inner suburb of Toronto.
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Racialized Groups and Access to Healthcare Research Working Group
This working group investigates the barriers and discriminations that racialized groups face within the healthcare system. The RWG is currently conducting a multi-component research project titled ‘Racialized People’s Perceptions of and Responses to Differential Health’ that examines if racialized people are receiving unfair or unequal quality of healthcare and explores social and policy implications of unequal care.
Racialization of Health Inequalities: Focus on Children
Racialization of Health Inequalities: Focus on Children (117 KB, 7 pgs)
This report presents an analysis of data related to immigration and health inequalities at the City and neighborhood levels (based on information from the 2001 census). Indicators related to income, racialization and time of immigration are highlighted.
