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Alcohol and cigarette consumption among white and Asian general practice patients
(Sage, 1988-09-01)LOW prevalence of alcohol and cigarette consump tion in Asian populations has been reported, though there is come evidence that smoking is becoming more acceptable to certain groups of Asian males. We examined the smoking ... -
Alcohol and cigarette consumption among white and Asian general practice patients
(SAGE, 1988-09-01)LOW prevalence of alcohol and cigarette consump tion in Asian populations has been reported, though there is come evidence that smoking is becoming more acceptable to certain groups of Asian males. We examined the smoking ... -
Patients' choice of general practitioner: influence of patients' fluency in English and the ethnicity and sex of the doctor.
(Royal College of General Practitioners, 1989)Asian patients' use of general practitioner services and, in particular, their interaction with doctors is not well researched. However, difficulty in communication and in the case of women, reluctance to be examined by a ... -
Policies, pills, and political will: a critique of policies to improve the health status of ethnic minorities.
(PubMed, 1989-01-21)The health status of the UK's Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, and East African minorities is significantly poorer than that of the white population. Improvements in the health experiences of these minorities requires more ... -
Health of British Asians; a research review
(Oxford University Press, 1989-02-01)About 2.5 per cent of United Kingdom residents are of Asian (or Indian subcontinent) origin though the term ‘Asian’ hides their internal diversities of languages, religions and national origins. The research on the health ... -
Influence of ethnicity and unemployment on the perceived health of a sample of general practice attenders
(Oxford University Press, 1989-05-01)Published research shows people of Asian origin to be less healthy than the white population. Most of the studies have not taken account of differences in employment between populations of white and Asian origin. Also, ... -
Cross-cultural use of socio-medical indicators with British Asians
(Elsavier, 1989-11)Socio-medical measures of health are increasingly being used as adjuncts to traditional clinical and epidemiological investigations. Such instruments can potentially make a significant contribution to research on inequalities ... -
Cross-cultural use of socio-medical indicators with British Asians
(Elsevier, 1989-11)Socio-medical measures of health are increasingly being used as adjuncts to traditional clinical and epidemiological investigations. Such instruments can potentially make a significant contribution to research on inequalities ... -
Oscillation criterion for certain second order differential equations
(1990-01)The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new oscillation criteria for second order nonlinear differential equations with retarded argument. Consider the delay differential equation x(t) + g(t)f(x(t))g(i(t)) = O ... -
Race, ethnicity and general practice.
(PubMed, 1990-06)THE post-war industrial boom in the UK attracted systematic and large scale migration from the ex-colonies of the new common wealth.Earlier migration had been largely from eastern Europe and Ireland. -
Patients' choice of general practitioner: importance of patients' and doctors' sex and ethnicity.
(Royal College of General Practitioners, 1991)The relative importance of sex and ethnicity in patients' choice of doctor is not known. A total of 1633 consultations at a health centre in Bradford, with a mixed ethnic list, were examined over a four week period to test ... -
General Practitioners' Perceptions of Asian and Non-Asian Patients
(Oxford Academic, 1991-03-01)The literature on the health of the population of Asian origin contains little on their interaction with primary care services. This paper reports results of a postal survey of GPs' attitudes towards Asian and Non-Asian ... -
General Practitioners' Perceptions of Asian and Non-Asian Patients
(Oxford University Press, 1991-03-01)The literature on the health of the population of Asian origin contains little on their interaction with primary care services. This paper reports results of a postal survey of GPs' attitudes towards Asian and Non-Asian ... -
An exploration of white, Asian and Afro‐Caribbean peoples’ concepts of health and illness causation
(Taylor and Francis Online, 1992)This article is based on secondary analysis of the Health and Lifestyle Survey. Matched controls from the white respondents were selected for the 129 Asians and 94 Afro‐Caribbeans. The analysis concentrates on concepts of ... -
The maligned healer: The ‘hakim’ and western medicine
(Taylor and Francis Online, 1992)Over the past decade Britain has seen an unprecedented increase in ‘alternative’ or ‘complementary’ therapies and yet concern has been expressed in particular about the practices of one type of healer, the hakim. Here I ... -
Making black people sick:‘race’, ideology and health research
(Open University Press, 1993)Race' and health research is a major industry. However, its benefits to ethnic minorities in terms of understanding illness or improving health care are minimal (Bhopal 1992; Sheldon and Parker 1992). The literature is ... -
Asymptotic properties of the solutions of a class of operator-differential equations
(1994)Some asymptotic properties of the nonoscillating solutions of operatordifferential equations of arbitrary order are investigated. -
ECONOMIC REVITALISATION OF INNER CITIES: The Urban Programme and Ethnic Minorities
(Oxford University press, 1994)BOOK REVIEWS 279 for the report was conducted during 1990/91. The report addresses the role of the Urban Programme (UP) in creating employment, business and train-ing opportunities for the minority ethnic communities. The ... -
On the use of spline functions of even degree for the numerical solution of the delay differential equations
(Springer Link, 1995-03)One considers and investigates the notion of natural spline functions of even degree, satisfying given derivative-interpolating conditions on simple knots. By using such spline functions we shall develop some theory and ... -
"Race" and Community Care. "Race," Health and Social Care Series.
(institution of education science, 1996)This collection offers a wide-ranging introduction to contemporary issues surrounding the health care needs of members of minority ethnic communities within the framework of community care in Britain. The following chapters ...