Disparities in Mental Health and Its Determinants Among Quebec High School Students by Language of Instruction

To learn more about the comparative study discussed in the video, read the full report Disparities in mental health and its determinants among Québec high school students by language of instruction (January 2022).

About the researchers

Marie-Hélène Lussier

Trained as a demographer, Marie-Hélène Lussier has worked in population health surveillance in the Health Analysis and Social and Territorial Inequalities unit at the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) since 2009. Her field of expertise is the public dissemination of health status indicators.

Since 2020, she has coordinated the team in charge of web data for COVID-19. Her work has also enabled her to participate in the production of several publications on the analysis of the health status of the Quebec population, with a particular focus on the health of linguistic communities.

Marie-Hélène Lussier
Rasmi Tith

Rasmi Tith

Rasmi Tith holds a Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition and a Master’s in Public Health. She has worked in the healthcare network as a nutritionist, mainly in the field of chronic diseases among ethnocultural communities. Since 2023, she has been working in population health surveillance in the Analysis of Health and its Social and Territorial Inequalities unit at the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ), where she focuses on analyzing the health of linguistic communities.