Primary healthcare and South Asian populations : meeting the challenges / edited by Shahid Ali and Karl Atkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ali, Shahid.

Atkin, Karl.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primary care (Medicine)--Great Britain.

Primary care (Medicine).

South Asians.

Medical care.

Great Britain.

South Asians--Medical care--Great Britain.

Primary Health Care.

United Kingdom.

Minority Groups.

South Asian People.

Medical Subjects:

Primary Health Care.

United Kingdom.

Minority Groups.

South Asian People.

Physical Description:

vi, 112 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon, U.K. : Radcliffe Medical Press, [2004]

Summary:

'This is a book that challenges any existing complacency about the quality of healthcare offered to South Asian populations. It is written for a broad audience who have an interest or direct involvement in this important subject area and in my opinion will appeal to leaders, clinicians, nursing staff, managers, and the wider primary care community. Research, analysis and commentary are essential, but if South Asian people are to benefit from better services and improved care, then research in particular must be integrated with dissemination and development. This book engaged me, which is a hallmark of a good read. I most certainly recommend it, as I am sure it will engage you too. Inequity and inequality must be rigorously challenged and addressed. All members of the primary care team, including doctors and nurses; policy makers and shapers and healthcare academics and researchers will find this book essential reading.

Contents:

Part 1 Ethnicity and primary care 1

1 Meeting the challenges / Karl Atkin, Shahid Ali 3

2 Institutional racism, policy and practice / Karl Atkin 9

3 Issues in the organisation and delivery of primary care / Philip Heywood 21

Part 2 Meeting the needs of the service user 31

4 Equity, clinical governance and primary care / Stephen Harrison 33

5 User involvement in primary healthcare: problems, paradigms and prospects / Timothy Milewa, Rukshana Kapasi 41

6 Better partnerships, better services / Dee Kyle 51

Part 3 Modernising primary care and improving clinical outcomes 57

7 Heart disease: an assessment of the importance of socio-economic position / James Nazroo 59

8 Mental health: disadvantage, discrimination and distress / Sashi Sashidharan, Martin Commander 71

9 Diabetes: a challenge for health professionals and policy makers / Dinesh Nagi 89

Part 4 Implications for policy and practice 101

10 Better knowledge, better care and better outcomes: implications for primary care policy and practice / Shahid Ali 103.

Notes:

"Foreword by David Colin-Thomé"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

185775820X

OCLC:

54966845