The Electoral Effects of the Descriptive Representation of Ethnic Minority Groups in Australia and the United Kingdom

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Zingher ◽  
Benjamin D. Farrer
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Descriptive Representation ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
The United Kingdom

The Recruitment and Retention of Members of Black and other Ethnic Minority Groups to NHS Research Ethics Committees in the United Kingdom

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Babatunde A. Gbolade
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Research Ethics ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Research Ethics Committees ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Recruitment And Retention ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The United Kingdom

The publication ‘Governance arrangements for NHS Research Ethics Committees’ is clear in its recommendations about the composition of National Health Service research ethics committees in the United Kingdom. It highlights the need for a sufficiently broad range of experience and expertise, balanced age and gender distribution and every effort to be made to recruit members from black and ethnic minority backgrounds, as well as people with disabilities. It was considered that this composition would make it possible for the scientific, clinical and methodological aspects of a research proposal to be reconciled with the welfare of research participants, and with broader ethical implications. Black and other ethnic minorities constitute 7.9 per cent of the UK population. Ideally, in any research ethics committee with a maximum of 18 members, at least one would be a member of the black or other ethnic minority groups. However, this does not appear to be the case; some committees having more than one, while most do not have any. This paper looks at the present position and suggests ways of improving recruitment and retention of members of these groups.

Psychiatry of old age and ethnic minority older people in the United Kingdom

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajit Shah
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Older People ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Secondary Care ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
The United Kingdom

SummaryThis review examines the demographic changes, the epidemiology of mental disorders and suicides, the potential risk and protective factors, access to secondary care old age psychiatry services (OAPSs) and the policy context pertaining to older people from ethnic minority groups in the United Kingdom. The number of older people from ethnic minority groups is increasing. The prevalence of mental disorders in older people from ethnic minority groups is either similar to or higher than that in the indigenous population. Therefore, the number of older people from ethnic minority groups with psychiatric morbidity is also increasing. Ethnic minority older people also have inequity of access to secondary care OAPSs. There is an urgent need to develop and implement practical strategies to improve access by older people from ethnic minority groups to OAPSs.

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