An Introduction to Race and ethnicity:
An Historical Overview

Instructions for users of this package

Over the next few pages you will be introduced to the key concepts of race and ethnicity and the manner in which they have framed how BME communities access health services and how health services are provided to them today. Notes will introduce key terms. Some of these terms may provide you with a hyperlink to another part of the web or the BE-ME web site – e.g. department of health, BE-ME video clips etc. If you are unable to open the video clips you may read a transcript or an overview of them.

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There are discussion or thinking points along the package that can be done individually or in-groups.

To help us in improving this package please email comments to either Ranjit Khutan or Be-Me. An evaluation form is included at the end, please complete this, as it will enable us to assess whether the package achieves its aims.

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Please note: This package only covers a small part of the Advanced Transcultural health issues module that is offered to Post graduate health studies students at the University of Wolverhampton and will signpost you to other useful sources of information to enable independent study of the issues that are touched on here.