Health services in a patient's own official language: Associations with proximity, region and sociodemographic factors, 2022

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Health services in a patient's own official language: Associations with proximity, region and sociodemographic factors, 2022
Abstract
Using data from the 2022 Survey on the Official Language Minority Population and the Open Database of Healthcare Facilities, this study examines how distance to health care facilities, alongside regional and sociodemographic factors, relates to access to language-concordant care for the official language minority population in Canada. In this article, language-concordant care refers to individuals receiving health care services in their preferred official language (English or French). The analysis focuses on adults aged 18 and older living across Canada. The study found that English-speaking adults in Quebec were more likely than their French-speaking counterparts in the rest of Canada to feel that it was important to receive health care services in their own official language and to request such services. In Quebec, 91% of English-speaking adults felt it was important to receive health care services in English, and 63% of those who received health care services in the 12 months preceding the survey always or often requested to be served in English.
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Statistics Canada
Date
September 18, 2025
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en
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Fernandes, Daphne. “Health Services in a Patient’s Own Official Language: Associations with Proximity, Region and Sociodemographic Factors, 2022.” Statistics Canada, September 18, 2025. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/75-006-x/2025001/article/00010-eng.pdf?st=nR4GRlW8.
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