Engaging ethnic minority blood donors

Ethnic Minority Empowerment

Ethnic minority students throughout the world have experienced disproportional school failure in education systems organized, administered, and controlled by members of the dominant group. This pattern is common to minority groups in most western countries who have been conquered, subjugated, segregated, and regarded as inherently inferior by the dominant group. Educational failure is regarded ...

National cord blood bank to recruit ethnic donors aggressively.

blood bank plans to aggressively recruit donors who represent the country’s diverse ethnic and multi-ethnic mix so as to increase the odds of ultimately providing stem cell matches to treat cancer patients with conditions such as leukemia and lymphoma. Canadian Blood Services will model its recruitment strategy after one it has used in recent years to increase the diversity of bone marrow donor...

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...

Black and Minority Ethnic Health Needs Assessment

The Ethnic Minority End-user Perspective

The complex needs of Black Minority Ethnic (BME) Deaf people are often misunderstood and inappropriately catered for. A lack of understanding around cultural differences and language needs, can leave the individual very isolated and marginalised in society. It is important to understand the backgrounds of BME Deaf people, their identity issues, their communication, family and social surrounding...