Guruge Sepali, Birpreet Birpreet, Samuels-Dennis Joan A
School of Nursing, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M5B 2K3.
School of Health Science, Humber College ITAL, 205 Humber College Boulevard, Toronto, ON, Canada M9W 5L7.
J Aging Res. 2015;2015:393761. doi: 10.1155/2015/393761. Epub 2015 Jul 27.
Increasing international migration in the context of aging populations makes a comprehensive understanding of older immigrant women's health status and determinants of their health particularly urgent. Using Arksey and O'Malley's framework, we conducted a scoping review to examine the available literature on the health of older immigrant women in Canada. We searched CINAHL, PsycINFO, Embase, Medline, and Cochrane databases for the period of 1990 to 2014 for Canadian-based, peer-reviewed studies on the topic. A total of 20 articles met the inclusion criteria. These articles were divided into six areas of focus: physical health; mental health; abuse; health promotion and chronic disease prevention; barriers to healthcare access and utilization; and health beliefs, behaviours, and practices. Our results show that the health of older immigrant women is affected by the interplay of various social determinants of health including the physical and social environment; economic conditions; cultural beliefs; gendered norms; and the healthcare delivery system. Our results also revealed that older immigrant women tend to have more health problems, underutilize preventive services, such as cancer screening, and experience more difficulties in accessing healthcare services.
在人口老龄化背景下,国际移民日益增加,这使得全面了解老年移民妇女的健康状况及其健康决定因素变得尤为迫切。我们运用阿克西和奥马利的框架进行了一项范围综述,以审视加拿大老年移民妇女健康状况的现有文献。我们在1990年至2014年期间搜索了CINAHL、PsycINFO、Embase、Medline和Cochrane数据库,查找以加拿大为基础、经过同行评审的关于该主题的研究。共有20篇文章符合纳入标准。这些文章分为六个重点领域:身体健康;心理健康;虐待;健康促进和慢性病预防;医疗保健获取和利用的障碍;以及健康信念、行为和实践。我们的研究结果表明,老年移民妇女的健康受到多种健康社会决定因素相互作用的影响,这些因素包括自然和社会环境、经济状况、文化信仰、性别规范以及医疗保健提供系统。我们的研究结果还显示,老年移民妇女往往有更多的健康问题,较少利用预防性服务,如癌症筛查,并且在获取医疗保健服务方面遇到更多困难。