The Promoting Healthy Living in BC's Multicultural Communities project, coordinated by AMSSA and funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada, was carried out from January 2005 to March 2006.

The overall Project Goal was to support effective intercultural communication in the area of public health. This includes access to public health promotion, outreach, prevention, and intervention for multi-ethnic populations, as well as mobilization of key multi-ethnic communities regarding public health emergencies.

The activities and findings described in the final report were undertaken for the implementation of Phases II and III of the project, which are the “Mapping Key Multi-ethnic, Multilingual Communities” and BC Multicultural Health Directory respectively.

The main objective of Phase II was to map current public health trends, issues, challenges, tools, and resources in multi-ethnic communities to increase the ability of public health providers to respond to health care issues. To accomplish this objective, Phase II has been organized with two components:

A Survey of Health Care and Social Service Providers, and

A community health assessment including focus groups with health care consumers, immigrant settlement and social workers and interviews with key informants.

As outputs of the surveys, two databases describing programs and types of resources available in different languages in BC health care facilities and other community settings were developed as well as 30 GIS maps, which used survey data, demographic, morbidity, mortality and statistical information pertaining to BC's population.

A final report has been prepared to describe the main features, findings and recommendations from the survey of health care and social service providers, focus groups with multi-ethnic health care consumers, immigrant settlement and social workers, key informant interviews and Directory of Multicultural Health Expertise.

Click here for the Final Report in English .

Click here for the Final Report in French.
Click here for the Maps.

Click here for the Health Care Providers Survey Tables.
Click here for the Social Service Providers Survey Tables.
Click here for the Focus Group Tables.