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Zusatztext This is an essential book for anyone working in primary care. It provides practical advice for those who work in ethnic populations, it is concise, well referenced and has excellent resource lists at the end of each chapter. From patient profiling to dealing with language difficulties, mental and sexual health, torture and much more you will be sure to find advice that will enhance your care . . . This invaluable work will not gather dust. Informationen zum Autor Joe Kai has been an inner city general practitioner and primary care academic in Newcastle upon Tyne and Birmingham. He is a Professor of General Practice in the School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nottingham and works at the medical school in Derby Klappentext There is increasing ethnic diversity in our society posing challenges for health professionals and health care. Existing texts on ethnicity and health are often esoteric and academic in focus! accessible to researchers and policy analysts rather than health practitioners. Other texts considera single health topic or cultural group. 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 - general practitioners! GP registrars! practice and community nurses! biligual workers! medical students and otherhealth 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. Chapters have been written to enable bust practitioners and students to grasp the essentials quickly and easily. The book aims to stimulate readers to learn about and develop an effective approach to ethnic diversity in health care - and thus for all health care contexts. Rather than be an encyclopedia of different ethnic groups and cultural practices! this book emphasizes the need for practitioners to respond to people as individuals within a broader understanding of the diverse needs of communities. It thus promotes generic principles for good practice whereverdiversity has an impact. Having underlined these principles the book considers major clinical topics and groups arguably of particular concern for the health of diverse ethnic communities in the UK. A broad but concise and practical introduction to ethnicity and health care Zusammenfassung This title offers a broad but concise and practical introduction to ethnicity and health care for a wide range of health professionals. It enables busy practitioners and students to grasp the essentials quickly and easily so they can develop an effective approach to ethnic diversity in health care. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Section 1: Ethnic diversity in context 1: Mark R D Johnson: Ethnic diversity in social context 2: Joe Kai and Raj Bhopal: Ethnic diversity in health and disease 3: Joe Kai: Toward quality in health care for a diverse society Section 2: Developing effective health care 4: Ben Jones and Katy Gardner: Patient profiling in primary care 5: Rhian Loudon: Improving access to health care 6: Jon Fuller: Effective cross-cultural communication 7: David Jones and Paramijt Gill: Interpreting and Translation 8: Akgul Baylav and Jon Fuller: Working with link-workers and advocates 9: Lai Fong Chiu: Health promotion and screening 10: Joe Kai: Learning to respond to diversity Section 3: Clinical care in practice 11: Azhar Farooqi and Kamlesh Khunti: Coronary heart disease 12: Kamlesh Khunti and Azhar Farooqi: Diabetes 13: Louise Hammersley: Hypertension and stroke 14: Sangeeta Patel: Mental health 15: Greta Rait and Steve Iliffe: Care of older people 16: Aziz Sheikh and Abdul Rashid Gatrad: Children and young families 17: Nicol...
