Addressing continuity and change in debates on ethnicity, health and health care, this volume considers the implications of national and international social, political and economic realities for health and health care provision to minority ethnic groups. Getting beyond simple inter-ethnic comparisons the volume represents the experiences of settled and new minority ethnic groups, refugees and asylum seekers across the world. INDICE: 1. Locating Ethnicity and Health: Exploring Concepts and Contexts:Waqar Ahmad and Hannah Bradby.2. 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.3. Race and Nutrition: An Investigation of Black-White Differences in Health-related Nutritional Behaviours: Peter Riley Bahr.4. DescribingDepression: Ethnicity and the Use of Somatic Imagery in Accounts of Mental Distress: Sara Mallinson and Jennie Popay.5. Hospice or Home? Expectations of End-of-life Care among White and Chinese Older People in the UK: Jane Seymour, Sheila Payne, Alice Chapman and Margaret Holloway.6. Contextualising Accounts of Illness: Notions of Responsibility and Blame in White and South Asian Respondents Accounts of Diabetes Causation: Julia Lawton, Naureen Ahmad, Elizabeth Peel and Nina Hallowell.7. Long-term Health Conditions and Disability Living Allowance: Exploring Ethnic Differences and Similarities in Access: Sarah Salway, Lucinda Platt, Kaveri Harriss and Punita Chowbey.8. Interpreted Consultations as Business as Usual? An Analysis of Organisational Routines in General Practices: Trisha Greenhalgh, Christopher Voisey and Nadia Robb.Index.
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-6898-4
- Editorial: Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 168
- Fecha Publicación: 25/04/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés