What is it about?
Many Muslim women in Canada come from countries where collective culture is predominant. The predominant culture in Canada is, however, individualist. How are these women's health behaviours influenced by this clash of cultures? This paper explores the perspectives of Muslim immigrant women regarding how their health behaviour is influenced in Canada.
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Why is it important?
Immigrant women from countries where collective culture is predominant often come to North America with better state of health than the norm found in North America. However, their health deteriorate faster than the norm and at times become worse than the norm. Understanding what determines their health behaviours and how the clash of cultures may play a role in this can help design effective health promotion programs targeting such immigrant groups.
Perspectives
Being an immigrant woman with collective culture background, I relate to this study personally. I wanted to investigate into what can help motivate women similar to me to take up health promoting behaviours. The cultural clash and settlement experiences turned out to play an important role, which I found out during this study. I am glad I was able to focus in on this further and publish the findings. I hope this can help public health personnel in designing more effective health promoting programs and messages to this population.
Ghezal Sabir
University of Manitoba
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This page is a summary of: Health behaviour in the face of cultural conflict: perceptions of immigrant Muslim women, International Journal of Migration Health and Social Care, September 2017, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ijmhsc-11-2015-0042.
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