Black and Minority Ethnic Groups in England - Health &
Lifestyles
Synopsis:
In August 1991 the Health
Education Authority commissioned MORI's Health Research
Unit to carry out a programme of health and lifestyle
research on its behalf. The programme was intended
to consist of separate quantitative surveys among the
general public in the UK and among black and and
minority ethnic communities resident in the UK.
The primary objective of the programme was to evaluate
the HEA's key mission statement, that 'the people of
England are more knowledgeable, better motivated and
more able to acquire and maintain good health', by
examining factors contributing to health status and
assessing the needs, and the barriers to maintaining
good health, of specific target groups. The
research findings would inform the HEA's strategies for
achieving Health of the Nation targets and for
identifying and monitoring indicators as well as
providing a frame of reference for data collected at
local level.
The communities selected
for inclusion in the first quantitative survey were
African-Caribbeans, Black Africans, Indians and East
African Asians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis who make up
the largest minority ethnic populations in England.
Given the need to obtain meaningful data for health
education purposes, it was felt to be essential to carry
out exploratory qualitative research in advance of the
quantitative study.
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