There was no previous data on smoking patterns among Chinese immigrants in Canada, and attempting a community based assessment would have been inherently difficult for an exploratory study.
Steven Choi, program director at an immigrant advocacy group, Ykasec — Empowering the Korean American Community, based in Flushing, Queens, said: "For us, the real question has been, 'How do we, as immigrants, translate our demographic power into political power?' But we see a real opportunity next year to upset the status quo".
The successful outreach of the Marketplace Navigators and other in-person assistance programs through initiating new or enhancing existing partnerships with ethnic immigrant community-based organizations will greatly benefit ethnic immigrant groups, especially individuals and children with disabilities.
Community based businesses are special.
It's all community based.
This requires community based treatment of malaria.
Attend local community based events.
It is for that reason that we, the members of pro-immigrant community-based organizations, made up of workers and students, are organizing a May Day rally and march in the city of Miami.
The ban was also criticised last year by the home affairs committee of MPs, which warned it would create tensions between police and immigrant communities and was not based on evidence that using khat caused medical or social harm.
In this context, our work opens the way to a completely new approach to the geography of immigrant communities within a city, based on topological data analysis, which could help to uncover a more refined classification for such communities.
