An enquiry answered by 100 randomly selected British Pakistani mothers in the postnatal wards of two hospitals in West Yorkshire showed that 55 were married to their first cousins, while in only 33 cases had their mother been married to her first cousin. This suggests an increasing rate of consanguineous marriage in this relatively small group, by contrast with the decreasing rate observed in s...

This paper critically analyses how Mohsin Hamid in ‘Discontent and Its Civilizations’ delineates the rupture lines prompted by a decade half of tectonic change, from ‘war on terror’ to struggles individuals maintain humanity inflexible physiognomy repressive ideology, or apathetic face globalization. Whether he is discussing ritual love affairs pop culture, drones pattern day-to-day life an ext...

Studies that ascribe ethnic identity by name searching demonstrate variations in perinatal mortality and health service uptake between South Asians* and the general population, and between Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. 2 We conducted a study to explore whether ethnic diVerences in immunisation rates exist in Newcastle upon Tyne, using data held on the Newcastle Child Health Register. In the abse...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a major public health and development problem within many low- and middle-income countries. Although Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) activities have been undertaken in high TB burden countries to remediate these issues, there is little empirical evidence of the efficacy of these approaches. The purpose of this study was therefo...