Cancer fear and fatalism among ethnic minority women in the United Kingdom

Nutritional deficiencies among ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom.

Ethnic minorities in Britain having their origins in the West Indies, the Indian sub-continent (Asian), China and Africa consume diets which differ in varying degree from those of the indigenous population. These minority groups are in general well nourished and almost certainly share obesity with the host population as their commonest nutritional problem. Infantile rickets and iron deficiency ...

Ethnic Minority and Employment Policies in Finland, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, and France

Acculturation and the prevalence of pain amongst South Asian minority ethnic groups in the United Kingdom

Background: Musculoskeletal pain is reported more commonly by South Asians in the UK than by white Europeans. This may result from a variety of factors, including cultural differences and thus we investigated the extent to which differences in the prevalence of pain within the South Asian population could be explained by differences in acculturation (the extent to which immigrants take on the c...

'You need that loving tender care': maternity care experiences and expectations of ethnic minority women born in the United Kingdom.

OBJECTIVE To explore the maternity care experiences and expectations of United Kingdom (UK)-born ethnic minority women. METHODS Qualitative in-depth interviews with 34 UK-born mothers of Black Caribbean, Black African, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Irish descent, recruited mainly from nine National Health Service (NHS) maternity units in England. RESULTS Overall, women felt that their ...

Psychologic predictors of cancer information avoidance among older adults: the role of cancer fear and fatalism.

Little is known about the correlates of cancer information avoidance and whether people with negative feelings and beliefs about cancer are more likely to avoid cancer information, allowing such thoughts and feelings to persist unchallenged. Using the Extended Parallel Processing Model as a theoretical guide, we tested the hypothesis that cancer fear and fatalism would predict cancer informatio...