Specialist Library for Ethnicity and Health

 

Newsletter

April 2009

 

Welcome to the April newsletter of the Specialist Library for Ethnicity and Health. The purpose of this newsletter is to inform you of current news, new additions to our library, and any other events that have occurred in our field during the previous month, and sometimes to highlight future developments.

 

 

News

 

Guide to BME cancer resources. Macmillan Cancer Support is in the process of producing a catalogue of the resources they publish to help guide BME patients coping with cancer. The majority of the resources to be included in the catalogue will be available in a number of languages.

 

Overcoming language barriers? With more than 300 languages spoken in London alone planning effective interpreting services can be vitally important; a recent research article analyses the past two Health Surveys for England to measure access to interpreting services on the NHS by non-English speaking patients.

Another article has also recently been published regarding the use of an Asian languages rheumatology telephone helpline. 

 

“They’re more like ordinary stroppy British women” Research into the attitudes and expectations of midwives towards UK-born ethnic minority women is quite rare; a recent study found that maternity care professionals appeared to equate the needs of ethnic minority women with those of the general population; this the authors conclude has positive implications for care provision, although some unconscious stereotypical views were also evident amongst the professionals.

 

 

New Additions

The following resources have been added to the Specialist Library for Ethnicity and Health during February and March.

 

Cancer:

Older Chinese people's views on food: implications for supportive cancer care

 

 

Cultural Competence:

A meta-analysis of psycho-behavioural obesity interventions among US multiethnic and minority adults 

 

 

Diabetes:

A controlled trial of the effectiveness of a diabetes education programme in a multi-ethnic community in Glasgow  

 

An integrated intervention program to control diabetes in overweight Chinese women and men with type 2 diabetes  

 

Intervention, recruitment and evaluation challenges in the Bangladeshi community: experience from a peer led educational course 

 

Is there equity of service delivery and intermediate outcomes in south Asians with type 2 diabetes? Analysis of DARTS database and summary of UK publications

 

Story-based scales: development and validation of questionnaires to measure subjective health status and cultural adherence in British Bangladeshis with diabetes  

 

 

Ethnicity Linked Disorders:

Implementation of universal newborn bloodspot screening for sickle cell disease and other clinically significant haemoglobinopathies in England: screening results for 2005-7

 

 

Infectious Diseases:

Migrant health: infectious diseases in non-UK born populations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - a baseline report  

 

Tuberculosis in pregnancy in the UK

 

 

Mental Health:

Rates and risk factors by ethnic group for suicides within a year of contact with mental health services in England and Wales

 

Self-harm in the UK: differences between south Asians and whites in rates, characteristics, provision of service and repetition 

 

 

Musculoskeletal:

Experience with a Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi rheumatology telephone helpline

 

 

Reproductive Health:

Inequalities in maternal health: national cohort study of ethnic variation in severe maternal morbidities   

 

Trends in maternal obesity and associated risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes in a population of Chinese women 

 

Using focus groups with minority ethnic communities: researching infertility in British south Asian communities

 

 

Service Delivery:

Access to interpreting services in England: secondary analysis of national data 

 

Do professional interpreters improve clinical care for patients with limited English proficiency? A systematic review of the literature 

 

Healthy weight, healthy lives: consumer insight summary 

 

Talking like a manager: promotion interviews, language and ethnicity

 

The black Diaspora and health inequalities in the US and England: does where you go and how you get there make a difference?

 

'They're more like ordinary stroppy British women': attitudes and expectations of maternity care professionals to UK-born ethnic minority women

 

 

Forthcoming Events:

 

April:

Race, Culture and Psychological Treatments - Conference 

 

June:

Sickle Cell and Deaths in Custody Conference 2009

 

November:

careif2009: International Conference

 

 

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Wesley Hubbard

NHS SLEH: The Specialist Library for Ethnicity and Health

De Montfort University and University of Warwick, Medical School  

 

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