The article analyzes the development of system international legal universal and regional documents regulating status ethnic minorities, role, importance acts UN, UNESCO, International Labor Organization, OSCE, Commonwealth Independent States in this regard. As a result research, it has been justified that document “On rights persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious linguistic minorit...

BACKGROUND Use of tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Racial/ethnic minorities and individuals of low socioeconomic status disproportionately experience tobacco-related disease and illness. Unique challenges and circumstances exist at each point in the cancer care continuum that may contribute to the greater cancer burden experienced by these groups. METHOD...

Research on diversity in organizations has largely focused on the implications of gender and ethnic differences for performance, to the exclusion of other outcomes. We propose that gender and ethnic differences also have implications for workplace charitable giving, an important aspect of corporate social responsibility. Drawing from social role theory, we hypothesize and find that gender has c...

Ethnic minorities (e.g., Hispanics, blacks, Asian-Americans, and Native Americans) are still underrepresented in alcohol research in the United States. Furthermore, existing studies often do not take into consideration the variability that exists within each ethnic group, resulting in inaccurate generalizations. Studies among Hispanics have found substantial differences among Hispanic subgroups...

Democratic engagement is a multi-faceted phenomenon that embraces citizens’ involvement with electoral politics, their participation in ‘conventional’ extra-parliamentary political activity, their satisfaction with democracy and trust in state institutions, and their rejection of the use of violence for political ends. Evidence from the 2010 BES and EMBES shows that there are important variatio...

Correspondence to: Dr Jawad M Khan, University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK; jawad.khan@ swbh.nhs.uk _________________________ H ypertension, currently defined as a blood pressure . 140 mm Hg (systolic) and/or . 90 mm Hg (diastolic), is a common problem. In a western adult population the prevalence of hypertension exceeds 20%. The prevalence of hypertension incr...

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...

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...

INTRODUCTION This chapter describes the patient characteristics and outcomes for the three main ethnic groups (White, South Asian, Black) on renal replacement therapy (RRT) in the UK. METHODS Data on patients (>18 years old) from all 71 UK adult renal centres starting RRT between 2003 and 2012 were considered. Scottish centres were excluded due to poor ethnicity data. RESULTS The age-gender...