Ethnic minorities and the Mental Health Act

Ethnic minorities and the Mental Health Act.

Ethnic Minorities and the Mental Health Act Patterns of Explanation

incorporated in the software provided with the micro computer, which can facilitate office work and repetitive administrative tasks, such as letters of appointment and addressing envelopes. The beauty of local microcomputer based case registers is that they can all talk to a centralised database maintained on a more powerful computer. In this way a number of geographically disparate sites can r...

Improving mental healthcare for ethnic minorities

Mental health services are developed to cater for the dominant economic or cultural group. In practice this means that ethnic minorities do not receive equitable care. In the UK, disparities in rates of illness, access to care, outcome and satisfaction with services have been reported (Sashidharan, 2003). However, more often than not such disparities are not measured and ethnic minorities suffe...

Mental handicap and the mental health act.

Diabetes and ethnic minorities.

The global prevalence of diabetes for all age groups is estimated to be 2.8%. Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 90% of diabetes worldwide. Diabetes incidence, prevalence, and disease progression varies by ethnic group. This review highlights unique aspects of the risk of developing diabetes, its overwhelming vascular complications, and their management mainly using data among South Asians a...