Introduction The Roma population constitutes the largest ethnic minority in Spain (more than 2% of population), with our country having third total world. concept health and disease varies sociocultural context. It is important to know cultural characteristics exercise good clinical practice. stigma surrounding mental illness widely known, even stronger community, leading marginalization shame....

The main purpose of this paper is to study the roles of ethnicity and language acculturation in determining the propensities to make interprovincial migration in Canada in 1976-81, 1981-86, and 1996-2001, based on the micro data of the 1981, 1986 and 2001 censuses. Since these propensities are also subject to the strong effects of other explanatory factors, a multivariate analysis using a binom...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of racism, own-group ethnic density, diversity and deprivation on adolescent trajectories in psychological well-being. DESIGN Multilevel models were used in longitudinal analysis of psychological well-being (total difficulties score (TDS) from Goodman's Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, higher scores correspond to greater difficulties) for 4782 adol...

Social identity, including identification with one's ethnic group, is an important aspect of social development. However, little is known about the subjective meaning associated with social group memberships, particularly during middle childhood. Using second- and fourth-graders responses to an open-ended question, we explored the meaning of ethnic identity with a sample of Chinese, Dominican, ...

This paper relates national fertility rates to political factors. I first review evidence that community norms affect fertility, ethnic groups compete politically in many countries, and a group’s relative size affects its ability to compete. This evidence jointly suggests that population growth and fertility may be public goods at the ethnic group level in diverse societies. Next, I present a s...

Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (or Add Health), a nationally representative sample of adolescents in 1994-95, we examine the extent to which Asian and Hispanic ethnic groups prefer same-ethnic, different-ethnic (but same-race), and different-race friends. We use the concept of panethnic sentiment, which we define as the importance of maintaining boundaries ...

background inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is a chronic, relapsing, inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract that includes two entities, crohn`s disease (cd) and ulcerative colitis (uc). as with other complex diseases, both genetic susceptibility and environmental factors play role in the pathogenesis of these diseases. the tumor necrosis factor α (tnf-α) gene is located in the ibd3...