Are immigrants, ethnic and linguistic minorities over-represented in jobs with a high level of compensated risk? Results from a Montréal, Canada study using census and workers' compensation data

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 875-885

  Premji, Stéphanie ^a   Duguay, Patrice ^b   Messing, Karen ^a   Lippel, Katherine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE ROBERT SAUVÉ EN SANTÉ ET EN SÉCURITÉ DU TRAVAIL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Census; Disparities; Ethnicity; Gender; Immigrants; Language; Occupational health; Workers' compensation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIGRATION; MINORITY GROUP; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CANADA; CENSUSES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; QUEBEC; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 77956161912     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20845     Document Type: Article

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