TY - JOUR T1 - Immigrant status, gender and work disability duration: findings from a linked, retrospective cohort of workers’ compensation and immigration data from British Columbia, Canada JF - BMJ Open JO - BMJ Open DO - 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050829 VL - 11 IS - 12 SP - e050829 AU - Niloufar Saffari AU - Sonja Senthanar AU - Mieke Koehoorn AU - Kimberlyn McGrail AU - Christopher McLeod Y1 - 2021/12/01 UR - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/12/e050829.abstract N2 - Objectives To compare differences in work disability durations of immigrant men and women injured at work to comparable Canadian-born injured workers in British Columbia, Canada.Methods Data on accepted workers compensation claims and immigration status from 1995 and 2012 were used to compare the number of work disability days paid at the 25%, 50% and 75% for immigrant and Canadian-born injured workers stratified by gender and recency of immigration.Results Immigrant workers comprised 8.9% (78 609) of the cohort. In adjusted quantile regression models, recent and established immigrant women received 1.3 (0.8, 1.9) and 4.0 (3.4, 4.6) more paid disability days at the 50% of the disability distribution than Canadian-born counterparts. For recent and established immigrant men, this difference was 2.4 (2.2, 2.6) and 2.7 (2.4, 4.6). At the 75%, this difference increased for recent immigrant men and established immigrant men and women but declined for recent immigrant women.Conclusions Injured immigrants receive more work disability days than their Canadian-born counterparts except for recent immigrant women. Both immigrant status and gender matter in understanding health disparities in work disability after work injury.Keywords work disability immigrant health; linked administrative data. ER -