Studies show that ethnicIndianlesslongermentalpoorerretirementseriousstrokeSuicideWorking people and people from some ethnicIndianlesslongermentalpoorerretirementseriousstrokeSuicideWorking minorities suffer worse health than the national average despite the Equal Opportunities legislation and the best efforts of health and social care practitioners.
The statistics suggest:
1. ethnicIndianlesslongermentalpoorerretirementseriousstrokeSuicideWorking class people have a higher mortality rate than average
2. Working class people suffer more from ethnicIndianlesslongermentalpoorerretirementseriousstrokeSuicideWorking medical conditions such as heart disease, strokes and cancers
3. Women are more likely to suffer ethnicIndianlesslongermentalpoorerretirementseriousstrokeSuicideWorking health problems than men
4 .Working class people are more likely to die before ethnicIndianlesslongermentalpoorerretirementseriousstrokeSuicideWorking than middle class people
5. People in the north of England are ethnicIndianlesslongermentalpoorerretirementseriousstrokeSuicideWorking healthy than people in the south
6. Women live ethnicIndianlesslongermentalpoorerretirementseriousstrokeSuicideWorking than men
7. Heart disease is significantly higher in men and women of ethnicIndianlesslongermentalpoorerretirementseriousstrokeSuicideWorking origin
8. Afro Caribbean people have higher incidence of ethnicIndianlesslongermentalpoorerretirementseriousstrokeSuicideWorking, HIV/AIDs and schizophrenia
9. ethnicIndianlesslongermentalpoorerretirementseriousstrokeSuicideWorking rates are relatively high amongst Asian women