OBJECTIVE To examine engagement in home safety practices to prevent injuries in preschool children among white and non-white ethnic minority families. DESIGN A self completion postal questionnaire assessed sociodemographic characteristics and engagement in home safety practices. SETTING Deprived areas in the city of Nottingham, United Kingdom. SUBJECTS 3906 caregivers of children aged und...

BACKGROUND Clinical trials that study cancer are essential for testing the safety and effectiveness of promising treatments, but most people with cancer never enroll in a clinical trial - a challenge exemplified in racial and ethnic minorities. Underenrollment of racial and ethnic minorities reduces the generalizability of research findings and represents a disparity in access to high-quality h...

The term ‘communal violence’ is commonly used in the South Asian context to refer to intergroup or ethnic violence. I contend that understanding intergroup violence purely within an inter-community or inter-ethnic framework is inadequate, in that it does not fully capture the processes of perpetration, impacts or mitigation of such violence. I suggests five areas where the categories of ‘commun...

BACKGROUND Race has been reported to affect the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), but there is very little research on the use of CAM by ethnicity in Korea. This study explores the prevalence of CAM use among ethnic minorities in South Korea. METHODS The design is a descriptive and cross-sectional study. A convenience sample of ethnic minorities was recruited from two publi...