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Ethnicity is a major factor affecting the health of individuals and communities. While the Wikipedia entries under ''' reports that ' Lactose Intolerance ' affects (over the lifetime)as many as 25% of 'white Europeans' but up to 50-80% of 'Hispanic' people, along with people from southern India and Ashkenazi Jews, but nearly 100% of "American Indians" (Native Americans) - (Bhatnagar S, Aggarwal R, 2007 'Lactose Intolerance' ''British Medical Journal'' 334 :1331-1332 doi=10.1136/bmj.39252.524375.80) .The science of 'ethnic health', or research into ethnicity and health, and the development of services which are 'culturally competent' to meet the specific health care needs of minority ethnic groups, is still in its infancy (Johnson MRD ‘Ethnicity’ in (Eds Killoran A, Swann C, Kelly M) ''Public health evidence: Changing the health of the public'' Oxford: University Press (2006)). In the United States of America, the Office of Minority Health (OMHRC - provides useful links and supports research and development relating to the needs of America's ethnic minorities. In the United Kingdom, the NHS (national health service) has created a 'specialist library' (SLEH: The Specialist Library for Ethnicity & Health)[http://www.library.nhs.uk/ethnicity to collate and validate evidence and resources (such as translated leaflets about diseases, in minority languages), to support health care professionals and community groups develop cultuarlly competent services. Similarly, there are growing numbers of resource and research centres which are seeking to provide this service for other national settings (such as Multicultural Mental Health Australia - mmha.au [http://mmha.org.au/]. SEE ALSO |
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