ethnicity

Ethnicity affects timing and access to cardiac care

harminka — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:12:09 -0500

Ethnicity is having a significant impact on timely access to cardiac care in Calgary. As the population's ethnic diversity grows across Canada, the cardiac care access becomes more difficile, according to new research led by a team from the University of Calgary.

Obama has inspired mixed-race workers to achieve

harminka — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:36:32 -0500

New research carried out at the University of Leicester suggests that Barack Obama has become a 'glorious mascot' for biethnic people seeking to achieve in the workplace.

What it means to be "Malay" - Confronting the Diversity & Contradiction

aboey — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:57:59 -0500

In the past five centuries, the Malay community has settled across a wide area, from the Riau Archipelago to as far as the banks of South Africa. A new book published by Wiley-Blackwell, The Malays, confronts the bewildering diversity and contradictions of the Malay identity, ethnicity and consciousness. The book seeks to provide a provocative case study of the Malay people and to explore the idea of “Malayness”.

Ethnic conflict stoked by government economic intervention, not globalization

harminka — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:02:57 -0500

Economic globalization and liberalization have been blamed for numerous social ills over the last two decades, including a sharp rise in interethnic violence in countries all over the world. Not so, say the results of a study conducted by researchers from McGill University and published in the current issue of the journal International Studies Quarterly.

Racial discrimination has different mental health effects on Asians

harminka — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:27:55 -0500

The first national study of Asians living in the United States shows that for some individuals, strong ties to their ethnicity can guard against the negative effects of racism. For others, strong ties to ethnicity can actually make the negative effects of discrimination worse. And the mental health effects of such discrimination may shift over a lifetime as Asian-Americans continue to examine their ethnic ties, say researchers.

Ethnic identity expressed in clothing is good for adolescents' mental health

harminka — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:18:59 -0500

Young people who dress according to the customs of their own ethnic group are less likely to have subsequent mental health problems than those who don't, suggests research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Widespread care disparities in Medi-Cal program

harminka — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:12:33 -0500

In the first external analysis of the California Department of Health Service's Medi-Cal Managed Care program, researchers from the UCLA Department of Family Medicine found widespread health care disparities based on ethnicity, race and language throughout the system.

Minorities, whites get equal care in hospitals

harminka — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:35:45 -0500

A University of Maryland study of whether people receive different quality of hospital care because of their race or ethnicity found that when whites and minorities are admitted to a hospital for the same reason, they receive the same quality care in that hospital.

Student Facebook use predicted by race, ethnicity, education

harminka — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:58:52 -0600

New research from Northwestern University finds that college students’ choice of social networking sites -- including Facebook, MySpace and Xanga -- is related to their race, ethnicity and parents’ education.

Our Urban Spaces in Peril

aboey — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:42:52 -0600

Urban space is being colonized and gentrified by invisible forces such as urbanism and white domination according to a new Wiley-Blackwell publication –“Cities of Whiteness”.

Ideal weight varies across cultures

harminka — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:51:15 -0500

Different cultures have different standards and norms for appropriate body size and shape, which can effect how children perceive their body image.

Children of immigrants form ethnic identity at early age

harminka — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:05:02 -0500

A study of more than 400 children of first-generation immigrants is among the first longitudinal studies to demonstrate that one’s ethnic identity forms prior to adolescence. Furthermore, the three-year study found that a child’s positive sense of ethnic identity is associated with the desire to socialize with children of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.