Ethnic Factors in Health and Disease

Content: 
Front Matter, Page i
Copyright, Page ii
Foreword 1, Page iii
Foreword 2, Page v
Preface, Pages vii-ix
Contributors, Pages xi-xv
Chapter 1 - Migration, ethnicity, health and disease, Pages 3-6
Chapter 2 - The changing nature of populations: the British example, Pages 7-11
Chapter 3 - General approaches to migrant studies: the relation between disease, social class and ethnic origin, Pages 12-17
Chapter 4 - Genetic versus environmental influences on disease: perspectives from obesity in particular populations, Pages 18-24
Chapter 5 - Molecular markers of ethnic groups, Pages 25-31
Chapter 6 - The health of migrants in England and Wales: causes of death, Pages 35-47
Chapter 7 - Epidemiological and clinical comparison of cardiovascular disease in blacks and whites in the USA, Pages 48-60
Chapter 8 - Blood pressure in urban and rural East Africa: the Kenyan Luo Migrant Study, Pages 61-68
Chapter 9 - Sociology of race and health, Pages 71-83
Chapter 10 - Pregnancy, Pages 87-94
Chapter 11 - Viral infections of pregnancy and childhood, Pages 95-102
Chapter 12 - Haematological and clinical aspects of sickle cell disease in Britain, Pages 103-113
Chapter 13 - Thalassaemia screening: ethics and practice, Pages 114-122
Chapter 14 - Running a sickle cell centre: community counselling, Pages 123-130
Chapter 15 - Sickle cell screening and its value in Jamaica, Pages 131-135
Chapter 16 - Rheumatic disorders and systemic lupus erythematosus, Pages 136-144
Chapter 17 - Cancer in migrant populations: a study in Singapore, Pages 145-154
Chapter 18 - Human retroviruses: human T-cell leukaemia lymphoma virus (HTLV-I) and disease, Pages 155-162
Chapter 19 - HTLV-I-associated lymphomas/leukaemias: the Jamaican experience, Pages 163-169
Chapter 20 - Tropical myeloneuropathies. The Jamaican experience, Pages 170-175
HTLV-I and tropical spastic papaparesis in Britain, Pages 176-177
Chapter 21 - Psychiatric practice and ethnic minorities, Pages 178-189
Part A - A picture from Birmingham, UK, Pages 190-194
Part B - A perspective from Nottingham, UK, Pages 194-200
Part C - Psychiatric hospital admissions in North London, Pages 200-203
Chapter 23 - Tuberculosis, Pages 204-208
Chapter 24 - Sarcoidosis, Pages 209-215
Chapter 25 - Nutritional patterns and deficiencies, Pages 216-226
Chapter 26 - Features of Gujarati, Punjabi and Muslim diets in the UK, Pages 227-230
Chapter 27 - Diets and food habits in the Indian subcontinent, Pages 231-234
Chapter 28 - Nutrition of Asian children: fetus and newborn, Pages 235-240
Chapter 29 - Nutrition of Asian children: infants and toddlers, Pages 241-248
Chapter 30 - Food type preferences and trends among Afro-Caribbeans in Britain, Pages 249-254
Introduction, Pages 255-257
Part A - Ischaemic heart disease in people of Indian subcontinent origin, Pages 257-263
Part B - Continuing rarity of ischaemic heart disease in Afro-Caribbeans in the West Indies and the UK, and in West Africa, Pages 264-266
Part C - An outline of cerebrovascular and renal disease, Pages 266-268
Part D - The natural history of blood pressure in black populations in the West Indies, West Africa and the UK: a comparison with the USA, Pages 268-279
Chapter 32 - Ethnicity, lipoproteins and haemostatic factors, Pages 280-288
Chapter 33 - Diabetes: contrasts between peoples of black (West African), Indian and white European origin, Pages 289-304
Chapter 34 - Management of hypertension in the Caribbean: the Jamaican perspective, Pages 305-314
Chapter 35 - Diabetes mellitus and its management in the Caribbean, Pages 315-317
Index, Pages 319-324