health and ethnicity

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Multiethnic societies continue to struggle with the benefits of integrating minority groups into large communities within the society against its costs . The cost of this integration and assimilation has resulted in increased cases of the non white population being exposed to ethnic experiences and consequently racism , thereby subjecting them to mental illnesses . Considering the case of United Kingdom in particular the integration and assimilation of the black population is intense This has in turn led to increased cases of schizophrenia within

the African-Caribbean population . This upsurge in the rate of schizophrenia has elicited a lot of concern among reform groups for decades . This therefore examines how several factors such as racial bias in medical diagnosis , stress as a result of minority status of a particular race and racism induced stress may have contributed to high incidences of schizophrenia among the African-Caribbean population

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Abstract .1

Introduction .3

Discussion .5

Racial minority status stress .5

Racism induced stress .7

Racial bias in psychiatric diagnosis .10

Conclusion .11

Bibliography .13

Introduction

Racial experiences and racism have been argued to the major contributing factor of deteriorating mental health of the black population (Pierce 1970 . In multicultural communities where non-white minority groups are integrated into the larger white population within the society , the incidences of racial experiences and racism by the white population are intense . The case of the United Kingdom where the black population are severely assimilated and integrated will form the basis of...