Ethnicity, Health and Health Care

This volume considers the implications of national and international social, political, and economic realities for health and health care provision to minority ethnic groups. Addresses continuity and change in debates on ethnicity, health, and health care Considers the implications of national and international social, political, and economic realities for health and health care provision to minority ethnic groups Represents the experiences of settled and new minority ethnic groups, refugees, and asylum seekers across the world Includes international comparisons between Caribbean migrants to the US and UK, the provision of interpreters in general practice and the variations in uptake of disability living allowance across ethnic groups

This volume considers the implications of national andinternational social, political, and economic realities for healthand health care provision to minority ethnic groups.* Addresses continuity and change in debates on ethnicityhealth, and health care* Considers the implications of national and internationalsocial, political, and economic realities for health and healthcare provision to minority ethnic groups* Represents the experiences of settled and new minority ethnicgroups, refugees, and asylum seekers across the world* Includes international comparisons between Caribbean migrantsto the US and UK, the provision of interpreters in general practiceand the variations in uptake of disability living allowance acrossethnic groups

1. Locating Ethnicity and Health: Exploring Concepts and Contexts(Waqar Ahmad and Hannah Bradby).2. The Black Diaspora and Health Inequalities in the US andEngland: Does Where You Go and How You Get There Make a Difference?(James Nazroo).3. Race and Nutrition: An Investigation of Black-WhiteDifferences in Health-related Nutritional Behaviours (Peter RileyBahr).4. Describing Depression: Ethnicity and the Use of SomaticImagery in Accounts of Mental Distress (Sara Mallinson and JenniePopay).5. Hospice or Home? Expectations of End-of-life Care among Whiteand Chinese Older People in the UK (Jane Seymour, Sheila PayneAlice Chapman and Margaret Holloway).6. Contextualising Accounts of Illness: Notions ofResponsibility and Blame in White and South AsianRespondents' Accounts of Diabetes Causation (Julia LawtonNaureen Ahmad, Elizabeth Peel and Nina Hallowell).7. Long-term Health Conditions and Disability Living Allowance:Exploring Ethnic Differences and Similarities in Access (SarahSalway, Lucinda Platt, Kaveri Harriss and Punita Chowbey).8. Interpreted Consultations as 'Business as Usual'?An Analysis of Organisational Routines in General Practices (TrishaGreenhalgh, Christopher Voisey and Nadia Robb).Index.