Is perception of the mainstream legal system homogeneous across ethnic groups?

Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Physical and Mental Self-rated Health Across 10 Ethnic Groups in the United States

Background and aims: The aim of this study was to explore ethnic differences in demographic and socioeconomic determinants of poor physical and mental self-rated health (SRH) in the United States. Methods: We used data from the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES) 2001- 2003, which included a national household probability sample of 18237 individuals including 520 Vietnamese, 5...

Legal issues arising out of medical provision for ethnic groups.

Health service access across racial/ethnic groups of children in the child welfare system.

OBJECTIVE This study examined health service access among children of different racial/ethnic groups in the child welfare system in an attempt to identify and explain disparities. METHODS Data were from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW). N for descriptive statistics=2,505. N for multiple regression model=537. Measures reflected child health services need, access, ...

Gender, education in Pakistan – the shifting dynamics across ethnic groups

A lot has been written on gender and access to education in Pakistan mostly discussing the stark gender inequalities with regard to education. This very brief article aims to look at the ethnic differentiation with regard to attitudes to girls’ education and challenge the established wisdom that poorer families prefer to educate boys rather than girls. The article argues that ethnic differentia...

A Neuroanatomical Signature for Schizophrenia Across Different Ethnic Groups

Schizophrenia is a disabling clinical syndrome found across the world. While the incidence and clinical expression of this illness are strongly influenced by ethnic factors, it is unclear whether patients from different ethnicities show distinct brain deficits. In this multicentre study, we used structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging to investigate neuroanatomy in 126 patients with first episode...