Annual Evidence Update on Ethnicity / Inequality: 19-23 October 2009

An update of the evidence on this topic from NHS Evidence - ethnicity and health.

The Ethnicity and health Specialist Collection will run an Annual Evidence Update in the week beginning 19 October and it will feature four exclusive articles based on current evidence these are:

• Obesity and south Asian children (Dr Monica Lakhanpaul)
• Cancer among BME groups – perspective of the National Cancer Action Team (Paula Lloyd)
• Mental health (Professor Kamaldeep Bhui)
• Ethnic groups and prescribing – pharmacovigilance and genetic diversity (Professor Larry Goodyear)

You can also visit the collection that week for information on ethnic groups and A/H1N1 “swine flu”.

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