Covid:19: Ethnic minority health staff are less likely to take up vaccine, early data show

Little Fish Are Less Likely to Take the Bait

Stacia Nordin I appreciate Zlotkin and colleagues’ years of work on the Sprinkle product, and it sounds like the product is much improved from the pill form of micronutrient treatments [1]. I’m not at all opposed to Sprinkle-type products or other nutrient pills for treatment (or in other special situations), but as ten years of international work experience on food and nutrition security issue...

Patients who take their symptoms less seriously are more likely to have colorectal cancer

BACKGROUND People vary in how they respond to symptoms. The purpose of this study was to assess whether serious disease is more likely to be present in patients who report that they take any symptoms less seriously than other people do, and to assess the reliability of a question which can be used to identify the extent to which patients take any symptom seriously. To do this we assessed whethe...

ETHNIC REVIEW Access to health care for ethnic minority populations

This paper reviews the research evidence on access to health care by ethnic minority populations, and discusses what might need to be done to improve access to services. Research on the process of care, and the quality of care received, is considered as well as studies examining uptake of services. Changes in legal context are increasing the pressure on healthcare organisations to examine and a...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

Promoting equality for ethnic minority NHS staff—what works?

1Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia; 2Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dental and Health Services, University of Melbourne, Australia; 3Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; 4Middlesex University Business School, London, UK; 5Departm...