Robert W Aldridge, Dan Lewer, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Rohini Mathur et al.
<ns4:p> <ns4:bold>Background</ns4:bold> : International and UK data suggest that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups are at increased risk of infection and death from COVID-19. We aimed to explore the risk of death in minority ethnic groups in England using data reported by NHS England. <...
Paramjit Gill, Aparna Shankar, Terry Quirke, Nick Freemantle
Overcoming language barriers to health care is a global challenge. There is great linguistic diversity in the major cities in the UK with more than 300 languages, excluding dialects, spoken by children in London alone. However, there is dearth of data on the number of non-English speakers for planni...
Andrew Riley, Andrea Varner, Peter Ventevogel, M. M. Taimur Hasan et al.
The Rohingya of Myanmar are a severely persecuted minority who form one of the largest groups of stateless people; thousands of them reside in refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh. There has been little research into the mental health consequences of persecution, war, and other historical trauma...
SH Wild, Colin Fischbacher, Ashlei Brock, Clare Griffiths et al.
BACKGROUND: Differences in mortality by country of birth in England and Wales in people under 70 years of age have been demonstrated previously. Changes in age distribution of migrants and in migration patterns have occurred subsequently. METHODS: All-cause and circulatory disease mortality for peop...
Gerd Holmboe‐Ottesen, Margareta Wandel
BACKGROUND: Immigrants from low-income countries comprise an increasing proportion of the population in Europe. Higher prevalence of obesity and nutrition related diseases, such as type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is found in some immigrant groups, especially in South Asians. A...
Rosalind Edwards, Bogusia Temple, Claire Alexander
This article explores the experiences of people who need interpreters to gain access to and use of a range of services, drawing on semi-structured interviews with people from Chinese, Kurdish, Bangladeshi, Indian and Polish minority ethnic groups living in Manchester and London, UK. We describe our ...
Robert W Aldridge, Dan Lewer, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Rohini Mathur et al.
<ns4:p> <ns4:bold>Background</ns4:bold> : International and UK data suggest that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups are at increased risk of infection and death from COVID-19. We aimed to explore the risk of death in minority ethnic groups in England using data reported by NHS England. <...
John McMullen, Paul O’Callaghan, Ciarán Shannon, Alastair Black et al.
BACKGROUND: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been home to the world's deadliest conflict since World War II and is reported to have the largest number of child soldiers in the world. Despite evidence of the debilitating impact of war, no group-based mental health or psychosocial interventi...
Abul Hasnat Milton, Md Mijanur Rahman, Sumaira Hussain, Charulata Jindal et al.
The Rohingya people are one of the most ill-treated and persecuted refugee groups in the world, having lived in a realm of statelessness for over six generations, and who are still doing so. In recent years, more than 500,000 Rohingyas fled from Myanmar (Burma) to neighboring countries. This article...
Alvin Kuowei Tay, Andrew Riley, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Courtney Welton‐Mitchell et al.
AIMS: Despite the magnitude and protracted nature of the Rohingya refugee situation, there is limited information on the culture, mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of this group. This paper, drawing on a report commissioned by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), aims to...
G Dean, Marta Elian
OBJECTIVES: Previous studies have shown that multiple sclerosis is very uncommon among Indian and Pakistani immigrants to England but that their children born in the United Kingdom, in the age groups available for study, have a similar risk of developing the disease as occurs in the general British ...
E. Mark Cummings, Christine E. Merrilees, Laura K. Taylor, Christina F. Mondi
An increasing number of researchers and policymakers have been moved to study and intervene in the lives of children affected by violent conflicts (Masten, 2014). According to a United Nations Children's Fund (2009) report, over 1 billion children under the age of 18 are growing up in regions where ...
Shaun Truelove, Orit Abrahim, Chiara Altare, Stephen A. Lauer et al.
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 could have even more dire consequences in refugees camps than in general populations. Bangladesh has confirmed COVID-19 cases and hosts almost 1 million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, with 600,000 concentrated in the Kutupalong-Balukhali Expansion Site (mean age, 21 years; stan...
Seeromanie Harding, Michael Rosato, Alison Teyhan
OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in coronary heart disease and stroke mortality in migrants to England and Wales. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. OUTCOME MEASURES: Age-standardised and sex-specific death rates and rate ratios 1979-83, 1989-93 and 1999-2003. RESULTS: Coronary mortality fell among migrants, more...
Rachel Jenkins, Robert R. Kydd, Paul E. Mullen, Kenneth J. Thomson et al.
BACKGROUND: Migration of health professionals from low and middle income countries to rich countries is a large scale and long-standing phenomenon, which is detrimental to the health systems in the donor countries. We sought to explore the extent of psychiatric migration. METHODS: In our study, we u...