Research
Forced Marriage and Mental Health
Forced Marriage has emerged as an issue for concern for health practitioners and policy makers over the last 10 years. This paper considers both the extent of Forced Marriage in the UK, and the impact that Forced Marriage, and other associated problems, such as domestic abuse, can have upon the mental health of its victims. The paper highlights a number of organisations implementing good practice in supporting the victims of Forced Marriage, and emphasises the importance of partnership working between statutory services and the third sector.
http://www.better-health.org.uk/briefings/forced-marriage-and-mental-health
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HIV and Aids in the North West of England 2010
This is the fifteenth annual report of the North West HIV/AIDS Monitoring Unit, presenting data on HIV positive individuals accessing treatment and care in north west England.
http://www.cph.org.uk/showPublication.aspx?pubid=746
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Delivering race equality in mental health care: report on the findings and outcomes of the community engagement programme 2005-2008
Jane Fountain and Joanna Hicks
A summary report is available here:
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/office_of_the_chief_executive/lancashirepro...
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‘Enjoy, Achieve and Be Healthy: The mental health of Black and minority ethnic children and young people’
This report is the result of a policy overview and consultation with 11-25-year-olds. The report highlights that a worrying profile at national policy level, of BME children receiving insufficient and ineffective consideration due to their age and ethnicity, is emerging.
In relation to the coalition government’s ‘No health without mental health’ strategy, the report shows:
• Around 20 percent of children and young people are believed to have a mental health problem, yet there is no indication how many are from a BME background
• Despite a breakdown of disorders being available for BME adults, none is available for BME children and young people, and has yet to be explained why
• Risk factors highlighted for children and young people regarding mental health fail to include racism, racial harassment or racist bullying
http://www.afiya-trust.org/images/stories/reports/afiya_young_people_rep...
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Exploring Ethnic Diversity in UK Social Research
The final report from a Joseph Rowntree Foundation Funded project Exploring Ethnic Diversity in UK Social Research is now available to download free from http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/ethnic-diversity-social-research.
This research addresses the increasing need for research to inform policy and practice development that is sensitive to the diversity of the UK's multiethnic population. Emphasis was given to the importance of ensuring that any guidance developed and promoted should be regularly appraised in light of the evolving social world and ethical and scientific standards.
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Tobacco use among minority ethnic populations and cessation interventions
http://www.better-health.org.uk/files/health/health-brief22.pdf
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The latest briefing in the Race Equality Foundation's Better Health collection is now available from the Better Health website:
Ethnic monitoring: is health equality possible without it?
http://www.better-health.org.uk/briefing-paper.asp?id=21
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SCIE: Race Equality discussion papers
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Breaking the Circles of Fear
A review of the relationship between mental health services and African and Caribbean communities produced by the Centre for Mental Health. (Free download)
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Voice 4 Change: A Shared Vision for the Future
This publication sets out a long term shared vision for the Black and Minority Ethnic voluntary and community sector (BME VCS). Informed by over 100 online questionnaire respondents and 13 in depth interviews it explores nine key areas for the VCS including building a more equal society, fair access to funding and embedding equality in localism. It sets out areas of action that policymakers can take working in partnership with BME voluntary and community organisations to improve outcomes for BME communities. It also identifies opportunities for the BME VCS including:
• Collaboration: We need to increase collaboration in the BME VCS to share resources and speak with a collective voice on community needs.
• Communication: We need to work together to better develop a shared narrative on race equality.
• Celebration: We need to celebrate our successes and share good practice to raise our profile on a self promoted and declared basis.
The full version is downloadable here
>The summary is available also:
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NHS Evidence: provides a range of information on mental health of refugees and asylum seekers, diseases and conditions e.g reducing cancer inequalities, also number of reports produced in 2010
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Kings Fund