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

Waqar Ahmad (Editor), Hannah Bradby (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-6898-4
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168 pages
May 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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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 care
  • Considers the implications of national and international social, political, and economic realities for health and health care provision to minority ethnic groups
  • Represents the experiences of settled and new minority ethnic groups, refugees, and asylum seekers across the world
  • Includes international comparisons between Caribbean migrants to the US and UK, the provision of interpreters in general practice and the variations in uptake of disability living allowance across ethnic groups

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