Ethnic inequalities in health: social class, racism and identity
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Work on ethnicity and health has mainly focussed on specific illnesses or has been based in specific locations. Nationally representative information on the health of ethnic minority people in Britain is scarce and until recently has largely relied on immigrant mortality statistics. While these show important differences in health between ethnic groups, they have a number of drawbacks, including using country of birth as a crude surrogate for ethnicity and using overarching and misleading ethnic groupings. The Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities (FNS) presented the first opportunity to use nationally representative data that did not have these problems and that allowed the concept of ethnicity to be unpacked across a variety of dimensions.
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Relation between racial discrimination, social class, and health among ethnic minority groups.
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