Who thrives in Canada? An Examination of social factors, healthcare access, and immigration status

Sonia S Anand, Shreni Patel, Scott A Lear, Trevor JB Dummer, Vikki Ho, Jean-Claude Tardif, Jennifer E Vena, Karleen Schulze, Paul Poirier, Dipika Desai, Matthias G Friedrich and from the Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds Study

PLOS Global Public Health, 2025, vol. 5, issue 12, 1-12

Abstract: High-income countries like Canada report some of the worlds’ highest life-satisfaction levels, yet less is known about how life satisfaction varies by race and immigration status. This study investigates the factors that influence subjective well-being among 8,063 adults from the Canadian Alliance of Healthy Hearts and Minds study recruited between 2014 and 2018, including a subset of 2,142 immigrants. Measures of demographic, socioeconomic, health, healthcare access, and self-reported ethnicity were investigated in relation to self-reported life satisfaction as measured by the validated Cantril ladder score in which people were classified as suffering [1–4], struggling [5–6], or thriving [7–10]. Among 8,063 adults, approximately half were women, 18.6% were racialized, and 26.6% were immigrants. The mean life satisfaction score was 7.2 (1.4), with 71% classified as thriving. However racialized immigrants reported significantly lower life satisfaction than Canadian born non-racialized participants [6.6 (1.6) vs 7.2 (1.4); P

Date: 2025
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