Ethnic minorities: useful links

Organisations

NHS Health Scotland's Equality team hosts webpages giving useful information on race and health

The Equality and Human Rights Commission came into being in 2007, replacing the functions of the Commission for Racial Equality, the Disability Rights Commission and the Equal Opportunities Commission.

Public Health Scotland provides a centre of expert advice and support to NHS Scotland on delivering equality and diversity, eliminating discrimination and reducing health inequalities.

The Scottish Government's Equality Unit provides information on all the equality strands.

The South Asian Health Foundation site provides reports relevant to the health of South Asians.

Libraries and databases

The Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) website

An equality evidence finder website within the Equality Unit's equality evidence section

The NHS ethnicity and health specialist library is part of the NHS Evidence resource, and references are accessed by entering relevant search terms.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have an Equalities in Health site with a range of useful resources.

Reports

The Coalition for racial equality and rights (CRER) (under a previous name - Glasgow Anti-Racist Alliance (GARA)) published a review of race and racism in Scotland in 2008 entitled the State of the Nation report (1.8MB). This reviews a range of data on ethnic minorities (including health aspects) with a focus on Glasgow.

The Scottish Government published a High Level Summary of Equality Statistics: Key Trends for Scotland 2006. This includes a range of "high level" statistics across a number of equality dimensions including age, disability, ethnicity, gender and in some cases religion.

Other useful resources

MEMO is a weekly bulletin of information of interest to minority ethnic communities in Scotland, including parliamentary activity at Holyrood and Westminster, new publications, consultations, forthcoming conferences and news reports.