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Showing 1 to 20 of 318 for “"Ethnic Minority"”.
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Addressing childhood obesity in ethnic minority populations
… UK is a serious public health concern. In some ethnic minority groups obesity prevalence is significantly higher than the national average (The NHS Information Centre, 2010). Therefore, it is recommended that interventions to manage childhood obesity are tailored to the needs of ethnic minority …
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The politics of ethnic minority radio in South Africa
The discourse on the implications of ethnicised radio, for example, in the Nigerian ethnic conflicts, the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and in the Kenyan ethnic violence of 2008 have brought more focus on challenges involved with policing ethnic media and managing ethnic relations in contemporary …
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Tamarind - the Ethnic Minority Film and a way beyond
Someone once told me: ""In order to write well, you have to write what you know"" - this piece of advice seems obvious and simple and yet - as it turned out, it was the most difficult piece of advice to process and follow. The reason: what I know was that I was a young, female, Cape Malay …
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Experiences of Racial and Ethnic Minority Patients With Genetic Counseling
<p>Racial and ethnic minority patients in the United States undoubtedly suffer from inequalities in healthcare. While some studies have explored these inequalities in the field of genetic counseling specifically, research relating to genetic counseling outcomes in diverse patient populations is …
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The determinants of ethnic minority party formation and success in Europe
Why do some ethnic minority groups in Europe form political parties of their own in order to obtain political representation, whereas others choose to work within the confines of established, mainstream political parties? Further, why do some ethnic minority parties (EMPs) achieve electoral …
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Family Resilience Model of Behavioral Health for Low-Income Ethnic Minority Families
… research particularly among low-income minority families. Correlates of poverty among minority families that have been noted in the literature are that of substance abuse and lower levels of mental health. The primary aim of this study was to operationalize the concept of family …
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Market orientation on trust and performance in London's ethnic minority micro businesses
… performance within the London African and Asian ethnic minority micro businesses (EMMBs). Searches of the literature established that previous studies concentrated on trust and market orientation, or market orientation and performance. Market orientation, trust and performance were selected as …
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Ethnic Minority Parents' Involvement in Education: Exploring and Understanding Their Experiences
… volume of literature that directly addresses ethnic minority parents' involvement in their children's education and they call upon researchers to fill this gap in the literature. This study is one such positive step with its focus on exploring how ethnic minority parents of secondary school …
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Exploring the Academic and Social Transititon Experiences of Ethnic Minority Graduate Students
… gains made in the educational attainment of ethnic minorities, members of these groups remain underrepresented in higher education. Fewer numbers of minorities at the undergraduate level translates into fewer minority students eligible to pursue graduate and professional degrees. As such, …
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Ethnic minority churches: The case of the Canadian Chinese Christian churches in Ottawa.
… and have become the most cohesive and active ethnic community organizations within the Canadian Chinese community. On the one hand, Canadian Chinese Christianity could be seen as tool for cultural adaptation. It provides the Chinese members with a set of values and Christian beliefs which they …
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A stress process model for anxiety symptom severity: comparing racial and ethnic minority adults
… predictors of anxiety symptom severity in racial/ethnic minority adults using data from two surveys of the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiological Surveys dataset (CPES): the National Survey of American Life and the National Latino and Asian American Survey. The Pearlin Stress Process Model …
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An Investigation of Racial and/or Ethnic Minority Teacher Candidates' Strengths Awareness and Utilization
… teachers from diverse linguistic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds contribute to American education (Dee, 2004; Easton-Brooks, Lewis, & Yang, 2010; Irvine, 2003; Irvine & Fenwick, 2011; Ladson-Billings, 2005; Lu, 2005; Talbert-Johnson, 2001). There is also a call for teacher educators to …
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Relationship Between Nurse Educators' Cultural Competence and Ethnic Minority Nursing Students' Recruitment and Graduation.
… cultural competence and the percentage of minority nursing students recruited into and graduated from these schools in the previous 5 years.</p><p>With the rapid rise of the minority population in the United States, more minority healthcare providers, including nurses, are needed to provide …
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"Multicultural France on the small screen: ethnic minority representations on the television show ""Engrenages"""
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Access for Whom? Examining Poor and Ethnic-minority Student Access at the Public Flagships
… and diminishing organizational support, poor and ethnic-minority students are finding it increasingly difficult to attend large public research universities. To investigate the potential relationship that exists between market-oriented practices in higher education and access for poor and …
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The European Union, state of exception and state transformation - Romania, Turkey and ethnic minority politics
… such the contemporary discourse of human life, ethnic minorities included, in world politics. The analytical mechanism is grounded in social constructivist theorisations of discourse analysis. It evaluates whether and to what extent the enlargement of the European Union (EU) and its accession …
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