Ethnicity, health, and health care
Subtitle: understanding diversity, tackling disadvantage
By: edited by Waqar Ahmad and Hannah Bradby.
Contributors: Ahmad, W. I. U. 1957-; Bradby, Hannah, 1966-
Series: Sociology of health and illness monograph series
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405168984
Subjects: Minorities -- Medical care; Discrimination in medical care; Delivery of Health Care -- Great Britain; Delivery of Health Care -- United States; Cultural Competency -- Great Britain; Cultural Competency -- United States; Ethnic Groups -- Great Britain; Ethnic Groups -- United States; Minority Health -- Great Britain; Minority Health -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Locating ethnicity and health: exploring concepts and contexts / Waqar I. U. Ahmad and Hannah Bradby; title: The black diaspora and health inequalities in the US and England: does where you go and how you get there make a difference? / James Nazroo ... [et al.]; title: Race and nutrition: an investigation of black-white differences in health-related nutritional behaviours / Peter Riley Bahr; title: Describing depression: ethnicity and the use of somatic imagery in accounts of mental distress / Sara Mallinson and Jennie Popay; title: Hospice or home? Expectations of end-of-life care among white and Chinese older people in the UK / Jane Seymour ... [et al.]; title: Contextualising accounts of illness: notions of responsibility and blame in white and South Asian respondents; accounts of diabetes causation; title: Julia Lawton ... [et al.]; title: Long-term health conditions and disability living allowance: exploring ethnic differences and similarities in access / Sarah Salway ... [et al.]; title: Interpreted consultations as 'business as usual'? An analysis of organisational routines in general practices / Trisha Greenhalgh, Christopher Voisey, and Nadia Robb.