Hi Manuela,
thanks for the advice. We are collecting parents country of birth, grand parents CoB is interesting but we have concerns about overloading practice staff with information to be entered.
Good point abnout the further de-nebulisation of british black groups - one of the largest non-white groups in Liverpool.
re. Spoken language. On a past project I have used a more complex way of determing linguistic ability with q's about main spoken language and ability with English. Again though, this is too much informastion perhaps to thrust upon practice staff. I think that we may settle on Main Spoken Language? and Do you need an interpreter?
Thanks again,
Ben Jones
Ben Jones
Heart Health Equality Worker
PCG Central West
0151 285 2283
>>> Manuela Sapochnik <[log in to unmask]> 08/09/00 10:25am >>>
Hallo
I did some research in this area last year and found that in terms of
health care provision it can be usefull to colect data on
parents/grandparents place of birth as this can have a direct
influence on hereditary conditions such as sickle cell anemia.This
is called 'territorial identity' by Dyson (1998).
It may also help you to 'de-nebulise' the black-british category as
many people in this category were born in england anyway!
Main language spoken is often english in non-english housholds so
information on 'mother-tounge' or 'first language spoken' can be of
value.
Dyson states that 'in relation to health policy, ethnicity should be
disaggregated and data collection should be focused on the
particular dimension at issue'. i.e. service provision.
Hope this is of help. would love to know how you get on, good luck!
Manuela Sapochnik
Research Fellow
Health Behaviour Unit
Public Health and Epidemiology
University College London
tel: 0207 679 5958
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