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Nadha Hassen, Rebecca Cheff, Dhvani Katakia, Juan Sanchez

Examining Health in the Three-Month Wait: Executive Summary

Over 80,000 new permanent residents (PRs) arrive in Ontario annually and are required to wait for three months before they are eligible to receive publicly funded health care (OHIP). Researchers and health care providers have raised concerns that the three-month wait creates a barrier to timely and equitable health care and could result in negative health outcomes for newcomers.

Wellesley Institute conducted scoping reviews of peer-reviewed and grey literature to examine the current available evidence on the three-month wait.

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.