Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care: Volume 5 Issue 3

A care pathway approach to identifying factors that impact on diagnosis of heart disease in British Pakistani women

Hilary Piercy, Punita Chowbey, John Soady, Permjeet Dhoot, Lerleen Willis, Sarah Salway

The authors examined the cardiac care pathway with the aim of identifying factors that impact on diagnosis and treatment of coronary heart disease in British Pakistani women.

Perspectives on alcohol use in a Traveller community: an exploratory case study

Rachel Hurcombe, Mariana Bayley, Anthony Thickett, Betsy Thom

Travellers are consistently found to have poorer health outcomes and health status than other minority ethnic groups. Very few studies have examined alcohol use among Travellers…

Pilot ethnic analysis of routine hospital admissions data and comparison with census linked data: CHD rates remain high in Pakistanis

A. Millard, C. Guthrie, C. Fischbacher, J. Jamieson

Routine data are needed to monitor ethnic health inequalities. The proportion of hospital discharge records with ethnicity information has been improving in Scotland. The aim of…

Stress and depressive symptoms in Latin Americans in Toronto

Jorge Ginieniewicz, Kwame McKenzie

The paper's aim is to determine whether the SAFE (acculturative stress), PHQ‐9 (depressive symptoms) and MSPSS (individual social resources) scales are considered acceptable…

From inequalities to equity

Kwame McKenzie