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Ethnicity as a Political Resource [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
How is ethnicity viewed by scholars of different academic disciplines? Can its emergences be compared in various regions of the world? How can it be conceptualized with specific reference to distinct historical periods?

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Poverty, Comorbidity, and Ethnicity: COVID-19 Outcomes in a Safety Net Health System [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
OBJECTIVE: To determine if race-ethnicity is correlated with case-fatality rates among low-income patients hospitalized for COVID-19 RESEARCH DESIGN: Observational cohort study using electronic health record data.
Cheatham, Megan   +9 more
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Ethnic Inequality [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Political Economy, 2012
This study explores the consequences and origins of between-ethnicity economic inequality across countries. First, combining satellite images of nighttime luminosity with the historical homelands of ethnolinguistic groups we construct measures of ethnic inequality for a large sample of countries.
Alesina, Alberto   +2 more
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Ethnicity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this paper, we examine the ways in which the notion of „ethnicity‟ has been operationalized for quantitative research. We argue that there is a conceptual mismatch between modern theories of ethnicity and the current way in which ethnicity is employed
661   +3 more
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Ethnicity and ethnicities Part I

open access: yesNowa Polityka Wschodnia, 2016
Scientific paradigm changes are frequently accompanied by the reconsideration of central terms and ideas. This article demonstrates how this process is currently underway in Russian anthropological studies [narodovedenie] as part of a broader move away from ethnography to theoretical ethnology.
Isaac Scarborough   +2 more
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Addressing ethnicity in social care research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article surveys recent developments in relation to the dimensions of ethnicity and ethnicdisadvantage in social policy research and practice, with a focus on social care.
Vickers, Tom   +5 more
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Operationalising the collection of ethnicity data in studies of the sociology of health and illness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
In response to the burgeoning interest in ethnic health issues and related published research, a number of recent contributors have attempted to clarify or systematize the usage of overarching terminology like 'ethnicity', 'race', 'culture', and ...
Aspinall, Peter J.
core   +1 more source

UK ethnicity data collection for healthcare statistics : the South Asian perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background Ethnicity data collection has been proven to be important in health care but despite government initiatives remains incomplete and mostly un-validated in the UK.
Anil Gumber   +30 more
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Need for ensuring cultural competence in medical programmes of European universities

open access: yesBMC Medical Education, 2019
Background Europe is becoming more social and cultural diverse as a result of the increasing migration, but the medical doctors are largely unprepared.
Janne Sorensen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Family Income at Birth and Risk of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder at Age 15: Racial Differences

open access: yesChildren, 2019
Background: Socioeconomic status (SES) resources protect children and adults against the risk of medical and psychiatric conditions. According to the Minorities’ Diminished Returns theory, however, such protective effects are systemically weaker for the ...
Shervin Assari   +1 more
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