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October 19, 2009
Annual Evidence Update on Ethnicity/Inequality - 19 October 2009
Annual Evidence Update on Ethnicity / Inequality (NHS Evidence - ethnicity and health)
www.library.nhs.uk/ethnicity
The Ethnicity and health Specialist Collection will run an Annual Evidence Update in the week beginning 19 October which will feature four exclusive articles based on current evidence:
* Obesity and south Asian children (Dr Monica Lakhanpaul)
* Cancer among BME groups - perspective of the National Cancer Action Team (Paula Lloyd)
* Mental Health (Professor Kamaldeep Bhui)
* Ethnic groups and prescribing - pharmacovigilance and genetic diversity (Professor Larry Goodyear)
You can also visit the collection for information on ethnic groups and A/H1N1 "swine flu".
Background to the NHS Evidence Specialist Collections and Annual Evidence Updates
The specialist collections have been developed to identify and meet the information needs of particular communities of practice. They are web-based collections containing clinical and non-clinical information on the major health priority areas. Each specialist collection identifies and provides access to quality assessed information of relevance to the community that it serves. An aspect of this involves the production of Annual Evidence Updates, which aim to highlight the best current evidence for selected healthcare topics. Annual Evidence Updates consist of the good quality evidence from a search of research evidence on a particular topic over a 12 month period, plus user-friendly summaries written by relevant experts, and links to guidelines, secondary research and primary research, if applicable. All information included in Annual Evidence Updates has been subject to rigorous selection criteria.
Posted by S.Austin at October 19, 2009 9:03 PM