Despite the exponential growth in the number of studies addressing ethnicity and health, there is considerable debate about definitions of ethnicity, the appropriate use of ethnicity in health research and whether research ...

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 ...

This book, edited by two sociologists who have helped delineate the field, brings the reader up to date through seven empirical studies in ethnicity and health care, covering self-reported health, nutrition, depression, ...

With the rapid development of ethnicity and health as a field of sociological research, this paper seeks to re-evaluate the development of ideas around ethnicity, ‘race’ and culture and consider how they have been applied ...

Ethnicity is a social division that is increasingly difficult to ignore. Ethnicity has to be considered alongside other social divisions including socioeconomic status which is crucial to explaining minority disadvantages ...

In this study, we explicitly examine the effect of using asset-based and conventional measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) on ethnic differences in health.