Sentences with phrase «minority ethnic populations»

And it is people from black and minority ethnic populations who are affected the most.

As Lucinda Platt and others have shown, Britishness is especially common among migrants and minority ethnic populations — and in particular those from South Asian and / or Muslim groups — who are far more likely to identify as British than their white British neighbours are.

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Putin spoke about the «rehabilitation of ethnic Tartars,» a minority Muslim that makes up about 12 % Crimea today after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's forcible deported of the entire population in 1944.

To find evidence that the evangelism offices of the denominations are trying to undo that captivity and deal seriously with the cities and the ethnic minority populations that live in them is not easy.

Ethnic minorities, especially Hispanics, are a growing segment of the population.

But auditors — and Children's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populations».

The NAO also found that Centres were making services more relevant to the needs of lone parents, teenage parents and ethnic minority parents in areas with large minority populations.

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

In the US, I think that about 25 % of the population consists of racial minorities and if you include ethnic minorities you get something closer to 50 %.

Islamists stormed the NTC headquarters in Benghazi, over 100 militia brigades from Misrata engaged in retributive killings of Gaddafi supporters, and ethnic tensions between Arab Islamists and minority Berber and Tebou populations led to violent clashes.

The employment gap between ethnic minorities and the rest of the UK population could take 30 years to close, a National Audit Office (NAO) report warns.

But the problem is more acute for Goldsmith because politically, London is a left - leaning city, with liberal values and a large ethnic minority population.

Ethnic minorities will make up a third of the British population by 2050.

Among some sections of the population, particularly ethnic minorities, the British empire is a «dirty word», evoking memories British imperialism.

This was also the time when far - leftists started to court social and ethnic minorities, such as gays, feminists, environmentalists and the growing population of foreign «guest workers».

If ethnic minorities had voted for Cameron at the same rate as the white British population in 2010, the Tories would have won 500,000 more votes, 24 more seats from Labour, and a parliamentary majority.

At present the UK's overall employment rate is 74 per cent but is only 60 per cent for the ethnic minority population.

Britain's ethnic minorities account for 7.5 % of the population.

Racial / ethnic minorities may jockey for «representation» if the census reveals significant increases in those populations.

Nearly four times as many people from ethnic minority communities voted Labour than voted Tory — and those different communities are a growing part of our population.

Thousands of Burmese army soldiers have been sent to attack ethnic minority civilian populations, mortar - bombing villages, just as mine was mortar bombed so many years ago.

Around a third of these seats have more under - 35s than over-55s, and plenty have large ethnic minority populations, especially in London.

Ethnic minorities now account for well over half of Redbridge's population, with Londoners of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent accounting for the biggest part of recent change.

Since then the growing ethnic minority population and boundary changes in 2010 which removed the Conservative voting area of Pinner have moved it further into the Labour column, to the point where it can be held even in what was a very bad election for the party.

BOSTON — The oral health of ethnic minorities and lower - income groups is much worse than that of the general population, but leveraging social networks and other innovative healthcare delivery channels may help close this troubling gap.

Combine the two categories — ethnic minorities and women — and you have a population that has been ignored almost completely.

People with low incomes and racial / ethnic minority populations experience greater levels of stress than their more affluent, white counterparts, which can lead to significant disparities in both mental and physical health that ultimately affect life expectancy, according to a report from the American Psychological Association.

However, the authors said that donor countries should ensure that vulnerable populations in middle - income countries, such as ethnic minorities who suffer discrimination, refugees and people who inject drugs, continue to get support, since it may be difficult for many countries to withstand the political pressures against helping stigmatized groups.

Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».

No one is surprised to hear that aging research related to ethnic or minority populations covers many aspects of basic and medical science.

The future opportunities in aging for ethnic and minority populations will also go beyond basic and applied research.

«There couldn't be an area with more interest,» Perry continues, «and the current health disparities for ethnic and minority populations will only become more stark, unless we find ways to extend life for all races and backgrounds.»

To make the greatest strides on aging for ethnic and minority populations, scientists might need a new approach.

«These findings dispute the commonly held notion that the gap in donor supply in certain geographic areas is due to large populations of racial and ethnic minorities who are less likely to consent for donation, thus affecting the geography of available organs,» said the study's lead author, David Goldberg, MD, MSCE, an assistant professor in the division of Gastroenterology at Penn..

Until now little was known about the prevalence of food allergy in low socioeconomic ethnic minority populations.

Although their cancers are diagnosed at younger ages, this is largely because these ethnic minority populations as a whole are younger than the population of White women in the UK.

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

In her new role, she hopes to enhance the availability of new genetic and genomic technologies across all populations, including efforts focused on racial and ethnic minorities and underserved populations.

However, it did not appear to preferentially benefit ethnic and racial minorities who are typically the most vulnerable of America's poorest population,» explains the study's lead investigator, Waddah B. Al - Refaie, MD, surgeonin - chief at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and chief of surgical oncology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.

Demographic variables were year of graduation, sex (men vs women), age at graduation (≤ 29 years vs 30 - 32 or ≥ 33 years) and self - identified race / ethnicity, which students reported from a list of options on the GQ (categorized as white vs Asian / Pacific Islander; other or unknown race / ethnicity; or racial / ethnic groups considered underrepresented minorities in medicine relative to their numbers in the general population, including black, Hispanic, and American Indian / Alaska Native).

It is a multi ethnic city which has predominant Bulgarian population with sizable Turkish and Roma minorities.

Many ethnic minorities are coming to Canada, and most of the population is second and third generation immigrants.

At the new millennium, more than a quarter of the U.S. population is composed of members of ethnic minorities, including African - Americans, Latinos, and Asians.

The school population, which includes students from seventy - six nations and ethnic backgrounds, is more than 65 percent minority, and almost half low income.

The students in grades 2 through 6 in the district are predominantly white (73 percent), with a sizable ethnic minority (Latino students compose 21 percent of the elementary population); 48 percent of them receive a free or reduced - price lunch.

In particular, the results are most useful for understanding the effects of charter schools run by education - management organizations on student populations that comprise largely low - income and racial / ethnic minorities.

Today, the Hispanic population comprises 44 million people, making people of Hispanic origin the nations largest ethnic or race minority.

Progress is to be measured both for all students and for students disaggregated into various subgroups, including disadvantaged students, those with limited English proficiency, students with disabilities, and those from racial or ethnic minority populations.

In Hartford, 97 percent of students are members of racial or ethnic minority groups — in a state with a total minority student population of about 27 percent, said Thomas W. Murphy, a spokesperson for the Connecticut Department of Education.

Graduation rates are even lower among certain student populations, particularly racial and ethnic minorities and males.