The Power of Inquiry as Regards American Indian Women with Disabilities: Divisive Manipulation or Clinical Necessity?

1992 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 46-52
Author(s):  
Catherine A. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Minority Populations ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
American Indian Women ◽  
Women With Disabilities ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Ethnic Minority Population ◽  
Female Responses

Rehabilitation counselors and researchers have called for more research and understanding as regards the needs of ethnic minority women with disabilities. However, researchers are confronted with the ethical issue of whether or not it is morally responsible to “divide” an ethnic minority population. This articles raises the issue of the appropriateness of conducting sex-specific studies with minority populations, and reports selected results from a recent study of American Indians with disabilities in terms of male and female responses. It is suggested that failing to analyze research according to sex category may result in rehabilitation counselors failing to meet the needs of Indian women with disabilities.

scholarly journals Biochemical abnormalities in COVID-19: a comparison of white versus ethnic minority populations in the UK

2021 ◽  
pp. jclinpath-2021-207446
Author(s):  
David R Taylor ◽  
Devon Buchanan ◽  
Wiaam Al-Hasani ◽  
Jessica Kearney ◽  
Tina Mazaheri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Troponin T ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Patient Data ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Gamma Glutamyl Transferase ◽  
Ethnic Minority Population ◽  
Glutamyl Transferase

AimsPublic Health England has identified that in COVID-19, death rates among ethnic minorities far exceeds that of the white population. While the increase in ethnic minorities is likely to be multifactorial, to date, no studies have looked to see whether values for routine clinical biochemistry parameters differ between ethnic minority and white individuals.MethodsBaseline biochemical data for 22 common tests from 311 SARS-CoV-2 positive patients presenting to hospital in April 2020 in whom ethnicity data were available was retrospectively collected and evaluated. Data comparisons between ethnic minority and white groups were made for all patient data and for the subset of patients subsequently admitted to intensive care.ResultsWhen all patient data were considered, the ethnic minority population had statistically significant higher concentrations of C reactive protein (CRP), aspartate aminotransferase and gamma-glutamyl transferase, while troponin T was higher in the white group. A greater proportion of ethnic minority patients were subsequently admitted to intensive care, but when the presenting biochemistry of this subset of patients was compared, no significant differences were observed between ethnic minority and white groups.ConclusionOur data show for the first time that routine biochemistry at hospital presentation in COVID-19 differs between ethnic minority and white groups. Among the markers identified, CRP was significantly higher in the ethnic minority group pointing towards an increased tendency for severe inflammation in this group.

scholarly journals Dialectics of Time and Space in American Indian Women’s Writings

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qasim Shafiq ◽  
Dr. Ghulam Murtaza2 ◽  
Asma Haseeb Qazi
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
American Indian ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
American Indian Women ◽  
Indian Women

<p>This study new-historically explores the dialectics of time and space in American Indian women’s writings to explain American Indians’ awareness of and attachment to their surrounding nature and its expression in the contemporary American Indian tribal life. With delimited focus on Louise Erdrich’s <i>Tracks</i> (1988) and Leslie Marmon Silko’s <i>Ceremony </i>(1977), this article analyzes American Indian approach to time and space reflecting Natives’ awareness of their surrounding place. Mythical stories of oral tradition inscribed in <i>Tracks</i> and <i>Ceremony </i>recreate American Indian timeless and macrocosmic realities. American Indian women writers have been selected owing to the matriarchal nature of American Indian social order wherein women have been the conscious carriers of their timeless oral tradition. The two selected novels of different settings express the cultural range of American Indian tribal belt from Canadian border (<i>Tracks’ </i>setting) to Mexican border (<i>Ceremony’s </i>setting). This range is evidence of the synchronic and diachronic integrations and distinctions of American Indian past, present and future.</p>

ACUTE PANCREATITIS IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA IN A MULTI-ETHNIC MINORITY POPULATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 429-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambika Amblee ◽  
Divyanshu Mohananey ◽  
Micheal Morkos ◽  
Sanjib Basu ◽  
Ayokunle T. Abegunde ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acute Pancreatitis ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Ethnic Minority Population ◽  
Severe Hypertriglyceridemia

The Dance of Exile: Jerzy Starzyński, Kyczera, and the Polish Lemkos

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Cathy Black
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Carpathian Mountains ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Ethnic Minority Population

Since at least the fourteenth century the Slavic ethnic minority population known as Polish Lemkos has claimed the northern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains as its homeland. Lemkos are part of a larger east Slavic population of Carpathian Rus' collectively known as Rusyns, who reside in the Lemko region (in Poland), the Prešov region (in Slovakia), and western Subcarpathian Rus' (in Ukraine) (see Figure I). Beyond the Carpathian homeland Rusyns live in Serbia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and outside of Europe in the United States, Canada, and Australia (Magocsi 2005, 433; 2006, II). By the outset of the twentieth century in the Lemko Region, the term “Lemko” was gradually adopted as an ethnonym instead of “Rusyn.” Some Rusyns in lands other than Poland also choose to refer to themselves as Lemkos.

American Indian Breastfeeding Folklore from the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
Diane Powers ◽  
Vicki Bodley Tapia
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
American Indian Women ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Northern Arapaho ◽  
Milk Fever ◽  
Wind River Reservation

Over the years, much of the folklore of breastfeeding has been lost because women did not write history, they told stories. This article shares breastfeeding lore from stories told to the authors by American Indian women from the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes on the Wind River Reservation near Lander, Wyoming. These women related stories describing treatment for milk fever (mastitis), the white man’s influence on mother/baby separation and its outcome, elderly women inducing lactation, breastfeeding and birth control, and how women dressed for ease of breastfeeding in former times. It is with appreciation for other cultures that we add this information from American Indians to the archives of breastfeeding history.

scholarly journals Diagnosis of mental illness in elderly people from ethnic minorities

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Lindesay
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Ethnic Minority Population ◽  
The Uk

From the 1991 census (Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, 1993) it is estimated that 5.9% of the total population of England and Wales belong to an ethnic minority, and that 3% of this ethnic minority population are aged 65 years and older. This compares with 17% aged 65 years and older in the indigenous population. Although the numbers of elderly people from ethnic minorities are small in absolute terms, these groups are growing rapidly, and mental health professionals working with elderly patients will increasingly need to be equipped with the necessary services and skills to meet their specific needs. The elderly ethnic minority population of the UK is extremely diverse; the largest groups originate from the Indian subcontinent and the Caribbean, but there are also significant communities of Chinese, Somali, Vietnamese, Eastern European, Mediterranean and Irish origin, all of which require consideration when planning and providing services, whatever their numbers. This diversity is also important when considering the various factors that influence the presentation and diagnosis of mental disorders in these groups.

scholarly journals The Paradox of Ethnic Minority Development in Beijing

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Hasmath
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Ethnic Difference ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
High Wage ◽  
Ethnic Minority Population ◽  
Educational Attainments ◽  
Employment Sectors

AbstractThe educational attainments of Beijing's permanent ethnic minority population out perform or are on par with the dominant, local Hans. Yet, the Han demographic disproportionately dominates the high-wage, education-intensive employment sectors. What accounts for this paradox? What does this signify regarding the management of ethnic difference in the capital city? And how do we improve this situation? Drawing upon recent research, this paper will offer sociological explanations to answer these questions. Moreover, it will further suggest strategies for enhancing the development of ethnic minorities in Beijing.

scholarly journals “End the Dominance of the Uyghur Ethnic Group”: An Analysis of Beijing’s Population Optimization Strategy in Southern Xinjiang

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Zenz
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Natural Population ◽  
Population Projections ◽  
Genocide Convention ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Optimization Strategy ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Ethnic Minority Population ◽  
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Chinese academics and politicians in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have argued that the region’s “terrorism” problem can only be solved by “optimizing” southern Xinjiang’s ethnic population structure. High Uyghur population concentrations are deemed a national security threat. “Optimizing” such concentrations is achieved by embedding substantial Han populations. Scenarios that do not overburden the region’s population carrying capacity entail drastic reductions in ethnic minority natural population growth. The intent to “optimize” the population serves as a basis to assess the intent to destroy an ethnic minority population in part, as outlined in the 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention. The “destruction in part” is assessed as the difference between projected natural population growth without substantial government interference, and reduced growth scenarios in line with population “optimization” requirements. Based on population projections conducted by Chinese researchers, this difference could range between 2.6 and 4.5 million persons by the year 2040.

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