In modern multicultural societies, the topic of 'health and ethnicity' has become increasingly recognised as highly relevant. All too frequently, academic coverage of the topic has been scattered in specialist literature of different disciplines; a book bringing these perspectives together has so far been lacking.

The aim of the book is to explain the diversity in health experience due to determinants and factors that can be described as 'ethnic'. Both 'ethnicity' and 'health' are words that have stimulated semantic debate, and yet too seldom is sufficient sensitivity given over to the complexity of the issue.

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Information

Publisher

CRC Press

Year

2000

ISBN

9781040074305

Edition

Topic

Medicine

Subtopic

Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Cover
Half-Title Page
Published Symposia of the Society for the Study of Human Biology
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Contributors
Preface
1: Introduction
2: Defining the ethnic group: important and impossible
3: Ethnicity and race as epidemiological variables: centrality of purpose and context
4: The contribution of socio-economic position to health differentials between ethnic groups: evidence from the United States and Britain
5: Health: an elusive concept
6: Human inbreeding: a familiar story full of surprises
7: The inherited disorders of haemoglobin
8 : Genetic variation and ethnic variability in disease risk
9 : Approaches to investigating the genetic basis of ethnic differences in disease risk
10: Diabetes, ancestral diets and dairy foods: an evolutionary perspective on population differences in susceptibility to diabetes
11 : Variations in health and disease: race, ethnicity or ‘nutrition transition’
12 : Ethnic variations and cardiovascular disease
13 : Ethnicity and the risk of cancer
14 : ‘Culture’ in the field of race and mental health
15 : Sexual health and ethnicity
16 : Challenges and policy implications of ethnic diversity and health
Index