PURPOSE The utility of self-management with people from minority ethnic backgrounds has been questioned, resulting in the development of culturally specific tools. Yet, the use of stroke specific self-management programmes is underexplored in these high risk groups. This article presents the experience of stroke therapists in using a stroke specific self-management programme with stroke survivo...

Despite a growing literature on the topic, little is known about how individuals perceive label “conspiracy theory”. In two studies, we compare social representations of conspiracy theories, and these are influenced by individuals’ own beliefs. addition, examine relate to scholars define explain theories. Study 1, used lexicometric analysis explore v...

Where ethnic violence divides groups by both religious and tribal affiliation, how does the ‘ethnic’ characterization of conflict affect perceptions crises? From a survey experiment in Jos, Nigeria, we find that priming respondents with versus frames leads to differently interpret causes violence, issues viewed as most salient cause religion important solution. The findings emphasize where more...

In 2003 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) was charged by Congress to examine racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Their landmark report, “Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare,” brought the issue of health care disparities to national attention. The report concluded that “Racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive a lower quality of healthcare than ...

OBJECTIVES Homogamy, mating based on similarity, has been demonstrated for a great variety of traits such as age, education, religion, and physical and psychological traits. Recently, pro-fertile effects of religious as well as educational homogamy have been reported. We investigate whether ethnic homogamy also has a pro-fertile effect and whether ethnic and religious homogamy interact in their...

Since 1978, mass religious conversion has been a prominent feature of Chinese life. In the 1980s and 1990s, “Five types believers’ distribution (Wuduo, ??)” were characterized by inclusion “more women”, elderly”, sick people”, rural residents”, people with lower socioeconomic status”, as is academic consensus. 21st century, some scholars have proposed different view “Three trends in faith strat...

During last century and in a period of time called modern history of middle east, we have seen different changes in life of urban communities as whole, and urban and rural of the mentioned region in particular. The range and power of such changes has been in such a level that we can claim: it has changed the “life world” of people noticeably. Among all parts of the region our field study (Iran’...

One dimension of inequality between social groups, as defined by socio-economic status, age, gender and increasingly ethnicity, is the experience of ill health and access to health services (Ahmad and Bradby, 2008). There is a burgeoning interest in the health inequalities that are prevalent among minority ethnic groups in both the UK and the USA (see Box 1) (Kelleher and Hillier, 1996; Nazroo,...

Conspiracy theories (CTs) are widespread ways by which people make sense of unsettling or disturbing cultural events. Belief in CTs is often connected to problematic consequences, such as decreased engagement with conventional political action or even political extremism, so understanding the psychological and social qualities of CT belief is important. CTs have often been understood to be "mon...