Health and Social Welfare (Year 2)                                                                                  (Ethnicity and Health )                                                                      

Content

  1. Introduction

  1. Background  Research  -  Mental Health Care  in BME  Communities   the UK

  1. Sketch - (Government Policies  on Health Care- UK)

  1. Determinants of Health for Minority Ethnic Communities

  1. Critical Evaluation - Mental Health Care Services for BME Communities.

  1. Conclusion

  1. Bibliography

  1. References

  1. Appendix.

  1. Introduction

Over the past years, health care standards in the UK has been heavily criticized by media practitioners and stake holders  in terms of quality and availability of its services   In regards to the growth in population and the influx of migrants workers  and asylum seekers. Despite the fact, there has been enormous effort in providing efficient and “State of the Art” Health Care Services. Recent development in the 21st century has raised so many concerns that needed immediate attention; pin pointing the awareness of the determinants of Health Care for minority ethnic communities.

 

  1.  Background  Research  -  Health Care  In BME Communities  across the UK

Mental Health Care Policies has been partially welcomed by users in the BME Communities, due to the bottlenecks that has stifled the progress and development of improving the wellbeing of patient suffering mental illness of various kinds. This led to setting up independent commission to investigate the root causes of poor delivery of mental health services.  foster

As a matter of fact,  black people  came to this country  in the early fourteenth century, whether as slaves or migrant workers  and the NHS has been in existence since 1948; long enough to have identified and address the disproportionateness of mental health care services in BME Communities. Therefore, the controversy surrounding the fairness in delivering mental health care services across diverse cultures had long over-due and timely action needed to be taken to combat racial inequality in the health sector.

In 1986, the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion identified nine pre-requisites for health care.

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 According to the Acheson’s Report which is based on the glaring inequalities in the provision of Health care, particularly to women, old people, the working class and Black Ethnic Minority group. It states that,

 “ … Persistence and entrenched inequality exist in the mental health provision for women, working class and old people. He further indicated that women have a higher rate or mortality from poor mental health and this strongly influence by socio-economic status. ; And working class black men are three times more likely to commit suicide and old people are less likely to receive some health care services…”. Acheson, D, 1998, Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health Report, London: The Stationery Office. Source:[Internet]  [Last Accessed: 21th March, 2007].

Otherwise, very little attention is presumed  to have been put forward, regarding social division and its negative impact on BME Communities. This major constraint cut across all aspects of Health and social care. in which,  the principal causes of  disproportionate delivery of health care  services  can still affect other health issues such as  Cancer, Diabetic, Infant Maternal Mortality, Post Natal Care, Organ donation and Transplant , Ageing and a wide range of specialist treatments.

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  1. Sketch - (Government Policies  on Mental Health Care Bill - UK)

Historical facts revealed that,  there has been a lack of reliable ethnicity data relating to mental health care services. Inspite of this, there is significant and local anecdotal evidence of the disproportionate impact of services upon ethnic minority communities. These evidences were generated by independent Commissions including , Health Care Commission and Mental Health Act Commission.

A comprehensive quantitative and  as well as qualitative research method was initiated in obtaining live data models whereby,  the results are currently ...

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