Meeting the needs of minority ethnic communities.

Meeting the needs of minority ethnic communities.

Concentrating on exotica and cultural differences merely allows commissioners and providers to ignore general health needs and blame the communities themselves when they receive poor quality services. We now have to move forward if we are to achieve an improvement in their health care. We are not talking of an insignificant minority, but nearly one in 10 of all children. Clearly real difference...

Black and Minority Ethnic Health Needs Assessment

Meeting the Needs of Different Research Communities

P LoS was founded in October 2000 not as a publisher, but as a grassroots movement of researchers who believed that the results of the global research enterprise should be a freely available public resource. So why did PLoS become a publisher, and what are we doing in this role to serve the world's varying biomedical researchers and clinicians? At its inception, the fi rst action by PLoS was to...

Palliative Care, Cancer and Minority Ethnic Communities

Ethnic Minority Communities and Sport Background information

In 1989 the English Sports Council introduced its first policy targeting people from ethnic minority communities. This was followed in 1992 by a statement that recognised existing inequalities of opportunity in sport for people from ethnic minority communities and acknowledged a duty to work towards the elimination of racial disadvantage and discrimination in sport, and promote good race relati...