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An evaluation of a report by Leeds health authority into the particular health care issues faced by ethnic minority children and their families, and the way such issues might be addressed on a social, political and economic level. Bibliography lists 11 sources
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points made in the report is the necessity of regarding health care in a wider social context than simply that of medical provision itself. As noted by Stevens and Raftery
(1994), any assessment of health needs from a community perspective must take a holistic approach, in the sense that health care incorporates a whole spectrum of prevention, intervention, supportive care
and so on. Individual health problems cannot be seen in isolation, since they will invariably have an effect on others: family, other carers, the community at large. This particular study
is focused on health care in relation to children from ethnic minority groups, but as the authors point out, this also involves looking at the experiences of parents, health care
workers and those involved in related services in the community. Their research therefore covers a wide range of related areas, and considers the sample group within the broader social context
rather than in isolation. Mackintosh et al (1998) maintain that in order to
assess health needs, it is necessary to perceive such assessment as an ongoing, dynamic process: the information obtained is used to improve services, which are then re-assessed and the process
repeated, each time taking into account social, economic and other changes which may be relevant. Both assessment and practice are therefore flexible, and interactive. In this instance, as the authors
note, this is exemplified by the fact that many of their conclusions are open-ended rather than definitive: this is partly due to the lack of previous detailed research in the
area. As they point out, there
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