Ethnicity, Health and Health Care : Understanding Diversity, Tackling Disadvantage

by Waqar .I.U. Ahmad (Editor)

Other authorsHannah Bradby (Editor)
Paper Book, 2008

Status

Available

Call number

IBMC Library - W 84 AA1 E82 2008

Publication

Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing

ISBN

1405168986 / 9781405168984

Description

This volume considers the implications of national and international social, political, and economic realities for health and health care provision to minority ethnic groups.Addresses continuity and change in debates on ethnicity, health, and health careConsiders the implications of national and international social, political, and economic realities for health and health care provision to minority ethnic groupsRepresents the experiences of settled and new minority ethnic groups, refugees, and asylum seekers across the worldIncludes international comparisons between Caribbe

Local notes

CONTENTS:
Locating ethnicity and health : exploring concepts and contexts
Waqar I. U. Ahmad and Hannah Bradby
The black diaspora and health inequalities in the US and England : does where you go and how you
get there make a difference?
James Nazroo ... [et al.]
Race and nutrition : an investigation of black-white differences in health-related nutritional
behaviours
Peter Riley Bahr
Describing depression : ethnicity and the use of somatic imagery in accounts of mental distress
Sara Mallinson and Jennie Popay
Hospice or home? Expectations of end-of-life care among white and Chinese older people in the UK
Jane Seymour ... [et al.]
Contextualizing accounts of illness : notions of responsibility and blame in white and South
Asian respondents' accounts of diabetes causation
Julia Lawton ... [et al.]
Long-term health conditions and disability living allowance : exploring ethnic differences and
similarities in access
Sarah Salway ... [et al.]
Interpreted consultations as 'business as usual'? An analysis of organizational routines in
general practices
Trisha Greenhalgh, Christopher Voisey, and Nadia Robb.
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