Why Are Ethnic Minorities Under- Represented in US Research Studies?

dc.contributor.authorSheikh, Aziz
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T14:59:42Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T14:59:42Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractMost economically developed nations are now multiethnic,and, given current demographic trends, there is reason to believe that societies will continue to become more ethnically and culturally diverse. For example, the 1991 and 2001 UK censuses, which both included a mandatory question on ethnic identity, revealed that the proportion of the UK population classifying themselves as belonging to a non-white minority ethnic group increased by 53% over this 10-year period, from 3 million to 4.6 million (or 7.9% of the UK population)[1]. We have more than two decades of research highlighting ethnic inequalities for a range of long-term disorders [2], such as asthma (Table 1), but despite the policy imperative to improve health outcomes for marginalised populations, there has, unfortunately, been little progress toward this end [3,4]. Perversely, data indicate that for some conditions these health inequalities may actually be increasing.
dc.description.urihttps://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0030049
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/521v-pokv
dc.identifier.citationSheikh, Aziz (2006) Why Are Ethnic Minorities Under- Represented in US Research Studies? PLOS Medicine, 3 (2). pp. 166-167.
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 565
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22631
dc.subjectHealth Equity
dc.subjectPolicy
dc.subjectoutreach
dc.subjectinterventions
dc.subjectservice
dc.subjectmethodologies
dc.subjectTeaching
dc.subjectMinorities
dc.subjectRacial
dc.subjectEthnic
dc.subjectResearch
dc.subjectUS
dc.subjectunder-represented
dc.subjectparticipate
dc.subjectwillingness
dc.subjectcommunities
dc.subjectmarginalized
dc.subjectmarginalised
dc.subjecthealth care
dc.subjectmethodology
dc.titleWhy Are Ethnic Minorities Under- Represented in US Research Studies?
dc.typeArticle

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