Socioeconomic status and health inequalities among older people from Bangladeshi ethnic minority group in England
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- Subject Areas
- Geriatrics, Global Health, Health Policy, Psychiatry and Psychology, Public Health
- Keywords
- Ageing, Ethnicity, Bangladeshi, Immigration, Health, Culture, Gender, Psychology, South Asia, BME
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- © 2014 Hossain
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2014. Socioeconomic status and health inequalities among older people from Bangladeshi ethnic minority group in England. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e600v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.600v1
Abstract
The study aims to examine what socio-economic, health and psychological problems of older Bangladeshi (55 years and older) experience in later life and what members of the Bangladeshi community perceive to be the reasons for these difficulties. It also aims at finding out the extent to which gerontological theories, that highlight the problems associated with later life, reflect the experiences of older people across ethnic and cultural differences in the United Kingdom. The research has been carried out in the London Borough of Croydon where a small number of Bangladeshi communities live. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with older people from the mixer of men and women so as to answer the above research question i.e. the problems and the effects of ageing process far from home where they made their later life abode. In a qualitative semi - structured interview study in the London Borough of Croydon, 17 older persons from the Bangladeshi communities were asked about their problems of ageing and how they feel about living and growing old in a western country.
Author Comment
Part of this work has been published in “The Problems of Ageing for Bangladeshi Families in London Borough of Croydon, England”. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing (2012-08-20)