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.

Annual Evidence Update on Ethnicity/Inequality: 20-24 October 2008

An update of the evidence on this topic from the NLH Ethnicity & Health Specialist Library.

The Ethnicity and Health Specialist Library will focus on five themes from the NHS “Big Sixty” (the 60 biggest health conditions and problems that cause 80% of the burden of disease) for its Annual Evidence Update. Following an overall introduction from Dr Surinder Sharma, the equalities director for the NHS, each theme will be introduced by a leading national authority.

On Monday, the theme will be "Commissioning & Ethnic Monitoring", followed by ethnic aspects of “Oral Health/ Oral Cancer". On Wednesday we shall focus on “Cardiovascular Disease in Ethnic Minority Populations" and on Thursday: "Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity” and “Renal Complications of Diabetes in Ethnic Minority Populations". To close the week, we shall highlight issues around Mental Health, in particular, “Suicide & Self-Harm” and “Learning Disabilities”. This approach of a diversity of key topics follows the successful first National Knowledge week on Ethnicity & Health held in October 2007.

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