About migrants
A quantitative survey will be carried out on uninsured migrants. It will be focused mainly on access to care, health, work and living conditions. The participants will be partly recruited at the Doctors of the World clinic (Total=500) while others will be selected from within the community (Total=400). The questionnaire will be prepared in French, English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Mandarin.
Qualitative interviews will be conducted with 30 participants who have experienced illness whilst lacking health insurance to find out about their life trajectory and access to health services during this period. The interviews will include those who easily accessed care, as well as others who did not access healthcare services so as to compare both groups’ life and health trajectories.
About health initiatives
Qualitative interviews will be carried out with people working on health initiatives (including health and social work professionals, administrators, etc) in Montreal (Total=20), Toronto (Total=8) and Vancouver (Total=8). We will try to understand how the initiatives were developed, their goals and the way through which have they have become sustainable (or not).
About policymakers
Qualitative interviews will be conducted with 20 policymakers and administrators working as part of Quebec’s professional associations and the public health system. We are going to analyze the decisions and recommendations made regarding uninsured migrants as well as the factors that influenced them. We will also analyze their knowledge of this complex problem.
For an overview of the project, read the summary section at the top.