scholarly journals Examining Demographic Characteristics and Settlement Patterns of Ethnoculturally-Diverse Specific Long-Standing and Recent Older Immigrants in the Toronto CMA, 2016

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Anthony
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Population Characteristics ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Recent Immigrants ◽  
Older Immigrants ◽  
Settlement Services ◽  
Census Metropolitan Area

Understanding population characteristics and residential patterns of recent and long-standing older immigrants is important to ensure that settlement services are adequately supporting a diverse and vulnerable population. This research paper represents a pilot study to fill in the gap found in the already limited scholarship on the characterization, spatial distribution and in-group differences of older immigrants in the Toronto CMA. Firstly, it explores the nuanced differences in population composition of four ethnocultural-specific subgroups representing long-standing (Italian and Portuguese) and recent immigrants (Chinese and South Asian) and secondly, it identifies clusters of recent immigrants that are settling outside of the long-standing ethnocultural enclaves. Despite having higher rates of education than their long-standing counterparts, Chinese and South Asian are characterized by low income prevalence and lack of knowledge of an official language. Hence, determining the multilingual composition of the South Asian and Chinese subgroups can facilitate language-specific settlement services within recent older South Asian and Chinese immigrant clusters. Key words: older adults, immigration studies, recent immigrants, settlement challenges, low income, hot spot analysis, Toronto Census Metropolitan Area

scholarly journals Examining Demographic Characteristics and Settlement Patterns of Ethnoculturally-Diverse Specific Long-Standing and Recent Older Immigrants in the Toronto CMA, 2016

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Anthony
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Population Characteristics ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Recent Immigrants ◽  
Older Immigrants ◽  
Settlement Services ◽  
Census Metropolitan Area

Understanding population characteristics and residential patterns of recent and long-standing older immigrants is important to ensure that settlement services are adequately supporting a diverse and vulnerable population. This research paper represents a pilot study to fill in the gap found in the already limited scholarship on the characterization, spatial distribution and in-group differences of older immigrants in the Toronto CMA. Firstly, it explores the nuanced differences in population composition of four ethnocultural-specific subgroups representing long-standing (Italian and Portuguese) and recent immigrants (Chinese and South Asian) and secondly, it identifies clusters of recent immigrants that are settling outside of the long-standing ethnocultural enclaves. Despite having higher rates of education than their long-standing counterparts, Chinese and South Asian are characterized by low income prevalence and lack of knowledge of an official language. Hence, determining the multilingual composition of the South Asian and Chinese subgroups can facilitate language-specific settlement services within recent older South Asian and Chinese immigrant clusters. Key words: older adults, immigration studies, recent immigrants, settlement challenges, low income, hot spot analysis, Toronto Census Metropolitan Area

scholarly journals The Changing Spatial Organization of Ethnic Retailing: A Case Study of Chinese and South Asian Grocery Store Retailers in the Toronto CMA From 2001 to 2016

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Perry
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Ethnic Business ◽  
Grocery Retailing ◽  
Census Metropolitan Area

Understanding the changing spatial structure of ethnic grocery retailing in Canadian urban regions can provide insights into ethnic business development and the well-being of residents, particularly relating to the availability of healthy food and risk of nutrition-related illnesses. This study explores this through a case study of Chinese and South Asian grocery retailing in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). In particular, the changing spatial relationship between ethnic grocery business distribution, ethnic residential patterns, and spatial accessibility is examined between 2001 and 2016. A combination of location quotients and global and local indicators of spatial autocorrelation were utilized to assess the relationship between ethnic groups while measures of spatial central tendency and a nearest neighbor analysis assessed the distribution of grocery retailers. An integrated marginalization-accessibility index was then developed to highlight any spatial mismatch between the level of material deprivation and grocery store access, highlighting patterns of inequality throughout the CMA. The results of the study reveal that Chinese and South Asian grocery retailers and residents have suburbanized over the study period. Index results also indicate that some census tracts (CTs) experienced limited access to both mainstream and ethnic grocery stores, particularly among the South Asian community. Finally, there is a growing number of CTs that are well-serviced to Chinese and South Asian grocery stores but are under-serviced to mainstream retailers, potentially identifying areas where ethnic grocers are filling gaps in service. Key words: ethnic grocery retailing, ethnic residential patterns, accessibility, healthy food provision, marginalized neighbourhoods, Toronto Census Metropolitan Area

scholarly journals The Changing Spatial Organization of Ethnic Retailing: A Case Study of Chinese and South Asian Grocery Store Retailers in the Toronto CMA From 2001 to 2016

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Perry
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Ethnic Business ◽  
Grocery Retailing ◽  
Census Metropolitan Area

Understanding the changing spatial structure of ethnic grocery retailing in Canadian urban regions can provide insights into ethnic business development and the well-being of residents, particularly relating to the availability of healthy food and risk of nutrition-related illnesses. This study explores this through a case study of Chinese and South Asian grocery retailing in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). In particular, the changing spatial relationship between ethnic grocery business distribution, ethnic residential patterns, and spatial accessibility is examined between 2001 and 2016. A combination of location quotients and global and local indicators of spatial autocorrelation were utilized to assess the relationship between ethnic groups while measures of spatial central tendency and a nearest neighbor analysis assessed the distribution of grocery retailers. An integrated marginalization-accessibility index was then developed to highlight any spatial mismatch between the level of material deprivation and grocery store access, highlighting patterns of inequality throughout the CMA. The results of the study reveal that Chinese and South Asian grocery retailers and residents have suburbanized over the study period. Index results also indicate that some census tracts (CTs) experienced limited access to both mainstream and ethnic grocery stores, particularly among the South Asian community. Finally, there is a growing number of CTs that are well-serviced to Chinese and South Asian grocery stores but are under-serviced to mainstream retailers, potentially identifying areas where ethnic grocers are filling gaps in service. Key words: ethnic grocery retailing, ethnic residential patterns, accessibility, healthy food provision, marginalized neighbourhoods, Toronto Census Metropolitan Area

Social Insecurity: Children and Benefit Dynamics

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUCINDA PLATT
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Quarterly Data ◽  
Income Family ◽  
Ethnic Group Differences ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Social Insecurity ◽  
Housing Benefit ◽  
The Impact

This article uses administrative data to explore benefit dynamics for children in Britain's second largest city, Birmingham, over the period January 1998 to June 1999. As the benefits in question (housing benefit and council tax benefit) are means tested, the dynamics are also informative about moves in and out of low income. The article is original in its use of quarterly data to provide a comprehensive picture of benefit dynamics, in treating the child rather than the benefit claimant as the unit of analysis, and also in including ethnic group differences in its analysis of benefit exit and re-entry. It provides a picture of substantial ‘welfare dynamics’: that is, movements in and out of benefit support. Living in a low-income family in receipt of benefit can be seen to be a part, and sometimes a recurring part, of the experience of a large proportion of children. It argues that policy needs to investigate and take account of the impact of insecure income as well as poverty when considering the welfare of children.

scholarly journals Transformative Governance through Freedom of Choices in a South Asian Megacity: A Critical Review

2012 ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Saleh Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Transitional Economies ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Amartya Sen ◽  
Freedom Of Choice ◽  
Developing Regions

Countries in the developing regions or transitional economies are now experiencing an unprecedented pace of urbanization. This phenomenal event involves far more complex system dynamics of human security and livelihoods than any times before. This paper is aimed to highlight these issues from human dimensions where peoples’ choices and values are properly addressed and can value in sociopolitical arena. The philosophical inputs have been taken from the remarkable works of Nobel Laureate Economist Amartya Sen. This paper explores how Sen’s ideas on freedom of choice and capability approach can improve the urban governance in cities like Dhaka, which is an example of hyper urbanization in low income developing regions and experiencing severe poverty and exclusion.

10. Women and Poverty: The Feminization of Urban Poverty in Canada

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura G. Ritenburg
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Government Programs ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Recent Immigrants ◽  
Feminization Of Poverty ◽  
Almost All

Poverty is disproportionately experienced among men and women. Gender plays a significant role when examining the effects and problems that poverty poses. While poverty can be experienced in differing extremes, it is women who suffer higher poverty rates in almost all societies (Christopher et al.). It is people with disabilities, recent immigrants, and racialized men and women who face additional disadvantages and “all of these groups have extremely high rates of low income and, in all of them, women are the most vulnerable” (Townson). In this paper I discuss how the ‘feminization of poverty’ has created a situation where the number of women in poverty far outnumbers that of men, and how the discourse of feminized poverty is directly affected by the processes and structures of social exclusion. I argue that gender significantly influences the experience and response to urban poverty in Canada through unequal caregiving responsibilities, the dynamics that surround pay inequality, and inadequate government programs.

scholarly journals Economic Growth and Higher Education in South Asian Countries: Evidence from Econometrics

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Nilofer Hussaini
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
The South ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Government ◽  
Enrolment Ratio ◽  
Relationship Of

South Asian economies has witnessed very slow growth over the years and the gap has widened manifold between other nations of Asia particularly East Asian nations and South Asian nations. This paper examines co-integration between the economic growth and reach of higher education in South Asian nations explaining this disparity. The research employed an econometric panel co-integration investigation to analyse the long run relationship of higher education and economic growth among these nations. The research confirmed positive long run causality between the economic growth of the South Asian nations and gross enrolment ratio of higher education. So, if the South Asian nations continue with their existing pattern of paying less attention to higher education by allocating low share of investment on it, poor human capital formation would result in growing further economic disparity between developed and South Asian nations where rich nations would remain richer and poor nations would remain poor with the gap remaining unabridged. This research will serve as an aid to policy makers, educators and financers of South Asian nations to bridge the gap between high- and low-income nations. The focus on the quantum of spending on higher education by the government will help improve the reach of tertiary education and build economic prosperity in these nations.

scholarly journals Improving Accuracy of Malaria Diagnosis in Underserved Rural and Remote Endemic Areas of Sub-Saharan Africa: A Call to Develop Multiplexing Rapid Diagnostic Tests

Scientifica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasheed O. Makanjuola ◽  
Andrew W. Taylor-Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Diagnostic Tests ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Rapid Diagnostic Tests ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Patient Treatment ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Effective Diagnosis

Clinical infection with malaria, caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium, is considered a serious medical condition with the potential to become a life-threatening emergency. This is especially relevant to low-income countries in tropical and subtropical regions of the world where high rates of malaria-related morbidity and mortality are recorded. As a means to combat this major global public health threat, rapid and effective diagnosis remains the frontline action to initiate a timely and appropriate medical intervention. From all the approaches to parasite detection, rapid diagnostic tests, so-called RDTs, are the easiest to use and most cost-effective. However, some of the limitations inherent in this methodology could hinder effective patient treatment. A primary drawback is that the vast majority of commercially available RDTs detect only one of the five species of human malaria, P. falciparum. While this is the main cause of infection in many areas, it excludes the possibility of infection with another parasite (P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, and P. knowlesi) or of mixed infections containing different species. Hence, a diagnosis of non-P. falciparum malaria is missed. In turn, in resource-constrained settings where optimal microscopy is not available, a misdiagnosis of bacterial infection based on signs and symptoms alone often results in an inappropriate prescription of antibiotics. Here, we discuss how effective diagnosis of malaria and indiscriminate use of antibiotics in sub-Saharan Africa, a hot spot for P. falciparum transmission, may both be addressed by the development of innovative multiplexing RDTs that detect two or more species of Plasmodium.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence and Health in Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 915-918
Author(s):  
Alexander Van Teijlingen ◽  
Tell Tuttle ◽  
Hamid Bouchachia ◽  
Brijesh Sathian ◽  
Edwin Van Teijlingen
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Big Data ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Short Communication ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Low Income Country ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Self Driving Cars ◽  
Key Terms

The growth in information technology and computer capacity has opened up opportunities to deal with much and much larger data sets than even a decade ago.  There has been a technological revolution of big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI).  Perhaps many readers would immediately think about robotic surgery or self-driving cars, but there is much more to AI.  This Short Communication starts with an overview of the key terms, including AI, machine learning, deep learning and Big Data.  This Short Communication highlights so developments of AI in health that could benefit a low-income country like Nepal and stresses the need for Nepal’s health and education systems to track such developments and apply them locally.  Moreover, Nepal needs to start growing its own AI expertise to help develop national or South Asian solutions.  This would require investing in local resources such as access to computer power/capacity as well as training young Nepali to work in AI. 

scholarly journals Testing the effect of summer camp on excess summer weight gain in youth from low-income households: a randomized controlled trial

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Whitney Evans ◽  
Rena R. Wing ◽  
Denise F. Pierre ◽  
Whitney C. Howie ◽  
Morgan Brinker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Energy Intake ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
School Year ◽  
Low Income Households

Abstract Background Children from racial and ethnic minority groups, low-income households, and those with overweight or obesity gain more weight during the summer than the school year. Summer day camps, which offer routine opportunities for physical activity and regular meal and snack times, have potential to mitigate excess weight gain. This randomized controlled trial was done to determine the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of summer camp in preventing excess summer weight gain among youth from low-income households. Methods Children, ages 6 to 12 years, were randomized to attend 8-weeks of summer day camp (CAMP) or to experience an unstructured summer as usual (SAU) in 2017–2018. Primary feasibility outcomes included retention, engagement and completion of midsummer measures. Secondary outcomes included changes in BMIz, engagement in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary behavior, and diet quality and energy intake from the school year to summer. Multivariable linear mixed models were used to assess group differences. Results Ninety-four participants were randomized to CAMP (n = 46) or SAU (n = 48), of whom 93.0 and 91.6% completed end of school and end of summer assessments, respectively. While CAMP participants attended only 50% of camp days offered, on average, they lost − 0.03 BMIz units while those in SAU gained 0.07 BMIz units over the summer (b = 0.10; p = .02). Group differences in change in energy intake from the school year to summer were borderline significant, as energy intake remained relatively unchanged in CAMP participants but increased among participants in SAU (p = 0.07). Conclusions Randomizing children to attend summer day camp or experience an unstructured summer as usual was effective in this low-income sample. Our findings support the potential for summer camps in mitigating excess summer weight gain. A larger randomized trial is needed explore efficacy, cost-effectiveness and longer-term effects of attending summer camp on weight and weight-related behaviors. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov Registration: NCT04085965 (09/2019, retrospective registration).

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