Researching Cultural Differences in Health

by Hillier; SHEILA

• ISBN13: 9780415111836
• ISBN10: 0415111838
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-06-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

There are concerns about the poor health and prevalence of chronic illness among a number of ethnic minority populations. There are also debates about how best to improve the situation. For some, the answer is to see their experiences as part of the general social class inequality in health. However recent evidence questions the extent to which social class can explain the variations in health which ethnic minorities experience. Researching Cultural Differences in Healthoffers a range of accounts of how people in ethnic minority groups perceive and manage their illness. Some of the chapters focus on Bangladeshi, and other South Asian groups, as well as Afro-Caribbeans and Irish people. The illnesses discusses include diabetes, hypertension, sickle-cell disorder, mental illness and coronary heart disease.

Table of Contents

List of tables
Contributors
Considering culture, ethnicity and the politics of health	p. 1
The meanings of high blood pressure among Afro-Caribbean and white patients	p. 11
Childhood development and behavioural and emotional problems as perceived by Bangladeshi parents in East London	p. 38
A defence of the use of the terms 'ethnicity' and 'culture'	p. 69
Afro-Caribbean lay beliefs about diabetes: an exploratory study	p. 91
The health of the Irish in England	p. 103
Is 'cultural difference' a useful concept?: perceptions of health and the sources of ill health among Londoners of South Asian origin	p. 124
Ethnic origin of sickle and thalassaemia counsellors: does it matter?	p. 160
The trouble with culture	p. 190
'How should I live?' Bangladeshi people and non-insulin-dependent diabetes	p. 220
Index	p. 238
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