Haemoglobinopathies and health-care provision for ethnic minorities

Haemoglobinopathies and healthcare provision for ethnic minorities.

The level of training and competence in dealing with haemoglobinopathies (which mainly affect ethnic minorities in the UK) may not be totally adequate among nurses. Nurses indicated that they received little or no information in their teaching for working from a multiracial perspective and what they had learned was through experience and personal research since qualifying as nurses. Knowledge o...

Inner-city residents, ethnic minorities and primary health care.

Ethnic minorities form a substantial proportion of the urban population. A household survey in the West Midlands assessed usage of primary and preventative health care services. Asian households made some-what higher use of general practitioner (GP) facilities which can be related to demographic and socio-economic status. Fewer differences were found than expected, and uptake of preventative se...

Ethnic minorities and the Mental Health Act.

Differences in health care utilisation between elderly from ethnic minorities and ethnic Dutch elderly

INTRODUCTION In the Netherlands, as in other Western countries, ethnic minority elderly are more often in poorer health than the indigenous population. The expectation is that this health disadvantage results in more frequent use of health care services. METHODS We studied registered data on the proportion of health care receivers, frequency of use, and health care costs collected by a major ...

Strategies for Medicare Health Plans Serving Racial and Ethnic Minorities

The Medicare Managed Care (MMC) Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) survey offers an opportunity to examine differences in health plan experiences and patterns of use of services of racial and ethnic minority beneficiaries enrolled in health plans. Analysis of the survey data and review of prior literature indicate significant health disparities and different patterns of health ca...