ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|9 pages

Introduction

chapter 5|9 pages

Health: an elusive concept

chapter 7|9 pages

The inherited disorders of haemoglobin

chapter 12|23 pages

Ethnic variations and cardiovascular disease

chapter 13|22 pages

Ethnicity and the risk of cancer

chapter 15|10 pages

Sexual health and ethnicity