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

Ethnicity, Health and Health Care by Waqar Ahmad, Hannah Bradby

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Description 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.

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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 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 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

Author Biography

Waqar I. U. Ahmad is a leading contributor to research on ethnicity and health, especially in relation to disability and chronic illness. He edited (with Charles Husband) the Open University book series, Race, Health and Social Care. Waqar has published in leading journals in social science (Sociology, Social Science & Medicine, Sociology of Health & Illness, Ageing and Society) and medicine (The Lancet, Journal of Public Health Medicine). He has been a member of the Economic and Social Research Council's Strategic Research Board (2002-06). Outside of academia, Waqar has been Vice Chair of a Primary Care Trust and Chief Social Scientist at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (2001-04). He is Assistant Vice Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at Middlesex University. Hannah Bradby has published research papers in Sociology of Health & Illness, Ethnicity & Health and Social Science & Medicine, among other journals. Her latest book is an interpretation of medical sociology for medical students, to be published in 2008 and she is the monograph editor for Sociology of Health & Illness. She teaches at the University of Warwick where she co-directs the Institute of Health.

Details ISBN 1405168986 ISBN-13 9781405168984 Title Ethnicity, Health and Health Care Author Waqar Ahmad, Hannah Bradby Format Paperback Year 2008 Pages 168 Edition 1st Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd GE_Item_ID:13631337; About Us

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