'Education? It is irrelevant to my job now. It makes me very depressed ': Exploring the health impacts of under/unemployment among highly skilled recent immigrants in Canada

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 185-204

  Dean, Jennifer Asanin ^a   Wilson, Kathi ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Determinants of health; Employment; Immigrants; Skilled worker program

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; IMMIGRANT; JOB SEARCH; LABOR MARKET; MENTAL HEALTH; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SKILLED LABOR; SOCIAL STATUS; TRAINING; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCOME; INTERVIEW; LABOR; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; SKILL; SOCIAL STATUS; TRAINING; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORK CAPACITY; WORK ENVIRONMENT; AGE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; INCIDENCE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

CANADA; MISSISSAUGA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EDUCATION, CONTINUING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 66949125079     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557850802227049     Document Type: Article

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