Professor R. Balarajan, National Institute for Ethnic Studies in Health and Social Policy, St Bernard's Hospital, London, UK.
Ethnicity & Health is an international academic journal designed to meet the fast-growing interest in the health of ethnic groups world-wide. Embracing original papers in the fields of medicine, public health, epidemiology, statistics, population sciences, social sciences and other areas of interest to health professionals, the journal also covers issues of culture, religion, lifestyle and racism, in so far as they relate to health and its anthropological and social aspects. The journal addresses issues of direct relevance to the health and welfare of ethnic communities, including prevention, Access to and equity in health care and models of appropriate and effective care. Also covered is the expanding field of migration studies, looking at the health and welfare of refugees and asylum-seekers.
Ethnicity & Health is directed at the international community, including academic and service professionals interested in the welfare of ethnic communities. Its audience includes: clinicians, epidemiologists, specialists in public health medicine, health statisticians, sociologists, community health workers and health service managers.
The Editorial Board is supported by an International Advisory Panel. The journal invites original papers for publication following conventional academic peer review; also presented will be sections on short communications, service reviews, and letters. The journal is published quarterly.
Ethnicity & Health is noted in ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts), CAB Health, Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Index Medicus/MEDLINE, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, GEOBASE, Geographical Abstracts: Human Geography and Sociological Abstracts.
Volume 4, 1999, 4 issues. ISSN 1355-7858
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