This paper examines ethnic diversity and local public goods in rural western Kenya. The identification strategy relies on the stable historically determined patterns of ethnic land settlement. Ethnic diversity is associated with lower primary school funding and worse school facilities, and there is suggestive evidence that it leads to poor water well maintenance. The theoretical model illustrat...

The manuscript mainly deals with the use of certain medicinal plants as folklore medicine by tribal communities of Hathras district. These plants are abundant everywhere at Hathras. The present study highlighted the use of 20 plants species as folklore medicine providing details about the plants, preparation of drugs and their uses as folklore medicine by the ethnic groups.

In 2006, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) – its signature effort to improve the quality of health care in targeted communities across the nation.1 Reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care was one of the key objectives of the AF4Q initiative. In this summary, we describe the major activities aimed at reducing disparities in care implemen...

The interface of religious identities, with state and politics is creating communal, ethnic and sectarian conflicts in South Asia. In spite of its geographical vastness and thousands of communities, the region remains conceived by sociologists in terms of religious identities. By continuing to discuss religious experiences, identities and conflicts in majority-minority terms, sociological disco...

The human gut microbiota consists of complex microbial communities, which possibly play crucial roles in physiological functioning and health maintenance. China has evolved into a multicultural society consisting of the major ethnic group, Han, and 55 official ethnic minority groups. Nowadays, these minority groups inhabit in different Chinese provinces and some of them still keep their unique ...

The importance of the "ethnic vote" and the legitimacy of claims by community leaders that they can influence a significant constituent block is worth investigating in light of the imminent federal election. The problems associated with trying to understand the nature, scope and influence of "ethnic" voting begin with attempting to construct an adequate definition of that which constitutes an "...

BACKGROUND Colorectal screening by Flexible Sigmoidoscopy (FS) is under evaluation in the UK. Evidence from existing cancer screening programmes indicates lower participation among minority ethnic groups than the white-British population. To ensure equality of access, it is important to understand attitudes towards screening in all ethnic groups so that barriers to screening acceptance can be a...

BACKGROUND Racial and ethnic diversity continues to grow in communities across the United States, raising questions about the extent to which different ethnic groups will become residentially integrated. OBJECTIVE While a number of studies have examined the residential patterns of pan-ethnic groups, our goal is to examine the segregation of several Asian and Hispanic ethnic groups - Cubans, D...

Diaspora ethnic communities differ in their readiness for mobilization on behalf of homeland interests. Using three ethnonational groups in the United States, each of which has ties to the Middle East, this paper develops and tests a multilevel model of politicized ethnic identity. The empirical analysis confirms that individuals differ in their readiness for mobilization based on the strength ...

Atkinson 2011 finds a significant positive correlation between population size and phoneme inventory size (confirming Hay & Bauer 2007) and explains it by migration: phoneme sizes are largest in Africa, and as societies spread out of Africa and around the world they went through population and cultural bottlenecks and underwent phonological simplification as a consequence. We believe the correl...