Ethnicity and Mental Health Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities
James Nazroo
'a closer approximation to the reality of psychological illness among minority groups than we have previously been able to obtain. I commend it enthusiastically'
Roland Littlewood, Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, University College London
'PSI is to be congratulated in publication of this book... [which] allows policies to be shaped in order to ensure that services are accessible and acceptable'
Paul Bebbington, Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry, UCL Medical School
'a unique study which needs to be read and understood not only by clinicians and mental health professionals, but also by purchasers of services and policy makers.'
Dr Dinesh Bhugra, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry
Mental Health and Ethnicity provides the first ever analysis of rates of mental illness among a nationally representative community sample of ethnic minority and white respondents. There is no comparable information available on the mental health of ethnic minorities groups in Britain.
This important report looks first at how rates of illness vary across and within ethnic groups. It then assesses to what degree this variation is influenced by socio-economic factors; and goes on to show the ways in which the findings of the Fourth National Survey and follow-up research challenge the existing assumptions about the mental health of ethnic minorities groups.
£14.95 paperback ISBN 0 85374 718 0
September 1997 234 x 153mm 192 pages
Fourth National Survey Text
Report number 842