National Knowledge Week on Ethnic Health: 8-14 October 2007

The Ethnicity and Health Specialist Library will present its annual evidence update during the National Knowledge Week for ethnicity and health, 8th - 14th October 2007. Experts will provide informed editorial comment alongside selected links to the most reliable and up-to-date available evidence relating to the topic and hosted on the NLH Specialist Library. Each day during the week, a different sub-topic will be covered, under the overall theme of "Cultural Competence in Health Care service delivery", and we shall highlight some relevant resources and links alongside the expert editorials. Themes to be covered include:

* Diabetic care and obesity
* Interpretation and language support
* Supporting people in mental health
* Screening for disease
* End of life care
* Patient choices.

Find out more at http://www.library.nhs.uk/ethnicity/