Relevant Research
Reports
The aim of this section is to highlight academic findings relevant
to BE4's work. Feel free to send
submissions!
November 2002 - THE DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH: Study of Black, Asian and Ethnic
Minority Issues. Ziggi Alexander September 1999
December 2002
- THE UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX: The mental
health of Chinese women in Britain, 1945 - 2000.
January 2003 - collaborative study
between Sheffield Primary Care Trusts, Sure Start Barkerend, Bradford
University and Sheffield University:Postnatal
Depression in South Asian Community - A Search for a Culturally Appropriate
and Accurate Detection Tool. Final Report by Abi Sobowale
March 2003
- The labour market outcomes
and psychological well-being
of ethnic minority migrants in Britain. By Dr Michael A. Shields and
Dr Stephen Wheatley Price
May 2003 - Inside
Outside: Improving Mental Health Services for Black and Minority Ethnic
Communities in England
October 2003 - Mental
health advocacy in Wales (summary)
November 2002 - THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH:
STUDY OF BLACK, ASIAN AND ETHNIC MINORITY ISSUES. Ziggi Alexander September
1999
This report marks the culmination of a study commissioned by the Department
of Health (DOH) in February 1999. The study, initiated before the Macpherson
Report was published, formed part of a strategic programme of activities
begun in 1998 to progress implementation of the Department’s equal
opportunities policy, particularly in relation to black, Asian and other
ethnic minority people. At the beginning of 1999, race equality work
took on a greater urgency with all Government Departments being required
to report on achievements and plans in the context of the Stephen Lawrence
Inquiry. The principal foci of this report are communities in England
which would describe themselves as being of African-Caribbean, Asian,
black African, Chinese or Mixed Heritage descent. The main objectives
of the study were:
- To examine the nature and extent of the issues facing black, Asian
and
ethnic minority communities in health and social care;
- To look at the emerging Government-wide agenda on black, Asian and
ethnic minority issues;
- To assess the strengths and weaknesses of what the Department of
Health is doing and how it is going about it; and
- To consider the likely impact of what is being done.
December 2002 - THE UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX:
THE MENTAL HEALTH OF CHINESE WOMEN IN BRITAIN, 1945 - 2000
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/doc/4523/mrdoc/pdf/a4523uab.pdf
The aim of this exploratory study of the mental health of Chinese women
in Britain was to identify issues of cultural difference between the
Chinese community and the health system in contemporary Britain, which
may have resulted in an under-estimation of their mental health problems.
Statistics showed that as a group the Chinese used hospital and GP
services less than other ethnic groups, possibly because they were all
extremely healthy or that the existing services were failing them. Some
circumstances of Chinese women's migration, employment and family lives
were very similar to those of South Asian (Indian and Pakistani) women,
whose unhappiness might have been under-estimated when they have been
assessed using the standard medical approach.
The specific objectives of this study were to examine competing explanations
for Chinese women's under-representation as users of primary and secondary
health services with particular reference to mental health; to consider
the possible barriers to the use of western mental health services,
including cultural specificities in the expression of mental distress,
stigma, the use of traditional Chinese medicine and of informal support
networks; to assist the development of culturally appropriate measures
of mental health; to feed back the findings so as to influence the delivery
of mental health services and to inform relevant academic debates.
January 2003: Postnatal Depression
in South Asian Community - A Search for a Culturally Appropriate and
Accurate Detection Tool. Final Report by Abi Sobowale@2002
http://www.haznet.org.uk/hazs/progress/fellowships/sobowale-fnl-rpt.pdf
The study was funded by a Health Action Zone Fellowship and supported
by Sheffield South West Primary Care Trust. It was a collaborative study
between Sheffield Primary Care Trusts, Sure Start Barkerend, Bradford
University and Sheffield University. The aim of the study was identify
a culturally appropriate and accurate screening tool for use with Punjabi/Urdu
speaking women, and undertake a preliminary validation of the identified
tool. As Sobowale writes in the introduction, '(P)ostnatal depression
(PND), one of the commonest complications of childbirth affects 10%-15%
of women. Although PND has been identified in different cultures, cultural
and linguistic differences can hinder the detection and management.
The commonly used screening tool in the United Kingdom is unsuitable
for screening women of non-western culture particularly those with English
as a second language.
Abi
Sobowale
Health Visitor
Sheffield South West Primary Care Trust
Jordanthorpe Health Centre
Dyche Lane
Sheffield
S8 8DX
Tel: 01142 375476
March 2003 - The labour
market outcomes and psychological well-being
of ethnic minority migrants in Britain. By Dr Michael A. Shields and
Dr Stephen Wheatley Price
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/rdsolr0703.pdf
This document details the investigations of a Home Office Research
project, undertaken by Dr. Stephen Wheatley Price and Dr. Michael Shields,
into the economic and social factors associated with ethnic minority
migrants’ labour market outcomes. It examines the quantitative
significance of these factors in influencing ethnic minority migrants’
access to employment and their participation in the labour force and
in determining the psychological and psychosocial well-being of ethnic
minority migrants living in England.
Migrants comprise a larger proportion of the population of Great Britain
than ethnic minorities. Ethnic minority migrants constitute a minority
of the migrant population. Of the groups investigated,Pakistani and
Bangladeshi migrants have the lowest levels of success in the labour
market. In this study the term ethnic minority migrant refers to someone
who was both born outside the United Kingdom (a migrant) and who self-reports
their ethnicity as being other than White (a member of an ethnic minority).
Survey data, from the Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, conducted
in 1994, and the Health Survey of England, in 1999, are analysed using
both summary statistical techniques and multivariate econometric models.
May 2003: Inside Outside:
Improving Mental Health Services for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities
in England
http://www.nimhe.org.uk/downloads/inside_outside.pdf
This document sets out proposals for reforming the service experience
and service
outcome of people from black and minority ethnic groups who experience
mental ill
health and who come into contact with mental health services, as users
or carers. The
plans set out in this document also aim to improve the overall mental
health of people
from black and minority ethnic groups living in England. The main focus
for change is
the pervasive ethnic inequality that currently exists within mental
health services. The
central objective of this initiative is to reduce and eventually eradicate
such disparities
and, by doing so, make mental health services appropriate for and relevant
to a
multicultural society.
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