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• Title:Ethnicity, health, and primary care / edited by Joe Kai.
  
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• Variant Title:Ethnicity, health & primary care
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Kai, Joe.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W84.6 .E843 2003
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects: Minorities--Medical care--Great Britain.
  Minorities--Health and hygiene--Great Britain.
  
• Medical Subjects:Primary Health Care--Great Britain.
  Culture--Great Britain.
  Ethnic Groups--Great Britain.
  Minority Groups--Great Britain.
  
• Description:xv, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Oxford medical publications.
  
• Summary:"Ethnicity, health, and primary care is a new book, intended as a broad but concise and practical introduction to ethnicity and health care for a wide range of health professionals including general practitioners, GP registrars, practice and community nurses, bilingual workers, medical students, and other health practitioners in training. Although focusing on primary care, the book's general principles and its clinical coverage will be highly relevant to other health and social care practitioners, in addition to those developing and commissioning health services."--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0198515731 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction / Joe Kai
  1. Ethnic diversity in social context / Mark R. D. Johnson
  2. Ethnic diversity in health and disease / Joe Kai and Raj Bhopal
  3. Toward quality in health care for a diverse society / Joe Kai
  4. Patient profiling in primary care / Ben Jones and Katy Gardner
  5. Improving access to health care / Rhian Loudon
  6. Effective cross-cultural communication / Jon Fuller
  7. Interpreting and translation / David Jones and Paramjit Gill
  8. Working with link workers and advocates / Akgul Baylav and Jon Fuller
  9. Health promotion and screening / Lai Fong Chiu
  10. Learning to respond to diversity / Joe Kai
  11. Coronary heart disease / Azhar Farooqi and Kamlesh Khunti
  12. Diabetes / Kamlesh Khunti and Azhar Farooqi
  13. Hypertension and stroke / Louise Hammersley
  14. Mental health / Sangeeta Patel
  15. Care of older people / Greta Rait and Steve Iliffe
  16. Children and young families / Aziz Sheikh and Abdul Rashid Gatrad
  17. Sexual health / Nicola Low
  18. Cancer and palliative care / Christina Faull
  19. Haemoglobin disorders / Paramjit Gill and Bernadette Modell
  20. Care of refugees and asylum seekers / Angela Burnett.