Obstacles to "race equality" in the English National Health Service: Insights from the healthcare commissioning arena

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 152, Issue , 2016, Pages 102-110

  Salway, Sarah ^a   Mir, Ghazala ^b   Turner, Daniel ^c   Ellison, George T H ^b   Carter, Lynne ^d   Gerrish, Kate ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c Quirkos   (United Kingdom)

^d NHS Yorkshire and Humber Commissioning Support   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commissioning; Ethnicity; Healthcare equity; Healthcare inequalities; Policy implementation; Race equality

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; RACIAL DISPARITY; SERVICE PROVISION;

AMBIVALENCE; ATTENTION; DOCUMENTATION; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MANAGER; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RACE; SKILL; TRUST; ANCESTRY GROUP; ENGLAND; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ENGLAND; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 84956697038     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.01.031     Document Type: Article

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