{"id":55287,"date":"2017-11-28T04:20:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T04:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55287"},"modified":"2017-11-28T04:20:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T04:20:48","slug":"measuring-the-health-patterns-of-the-mixed-multiple-ethnic-group-in-britain-data-quality-problems-reporting-issues-and-implications-for-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55287","title":{"rendered":"Measuring the health patterns of the \u2018mixed\/multiple\u2019 ethnic group in Britain: data quality problems, reporting issues, and implications for policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13645579.2017.1399623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Measuring the health patterns of the \u2018mixed\/multiple\u2019 ethnic group in Britain: data quality problems, reporting issues, and implications for policy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/tsrm20\/current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Journal of Social Research Methodology<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online: 2017-11-25<br \/>\npages 1-13<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13645579.2017.1399623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1080\/13645579.2017.1399623<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/staff\/associates\/aspinall.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Peter J. Aspinall<\/strong><\/a>, Emeritus Reader in Population Health<br \/>\nCentre for Health Services Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The \u2018mixed\u2019 group, officially recognised in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/census\/2011census\/2011censusdata\/2001censusdata\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2001 Census<\/a>, is one of the most rapidly growing ethnic groups in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britain<\/a>. Although \u2018mixed\u2019 categorisation was added to ethnic coding in <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.nhs.uk\/article\/446\/Data-sets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NHS datasets<\/a>, our knowledge of health patterns for this population is meagre. Data quality problems remain a key obstacle, including poor reproducibility of the data and constraints on reporting due to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/352\/bmj.i1981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sparse data bias<\/a>. The consequent minimal and indicative evidence base has focused mainly on risky health behaviours, mental health and generic measures of self-rated health, as it has in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S.A.<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada<\/a>. There is negligible information on the main underlying causes of death, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neoplasm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">neoplasms<\/a>, heart disease and stroke. Consideration should be given to pooling data across multiple years of health and general purpose surveys to enable reporting for the four \u2018mixed\u2019 categories and adjustment for mediating factors and relevant confounders, such as measures of socio-economic status.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/13645579.2017.1399623?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consideration should be given to pooling data across multiple years of health and general purpose surveys to enable reporting for the four \u2018mixed\u2019 categories and adjustment for mediating factors and relevant confounders, such as measures of socio-economic status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,2039,8,394,10],"tags":[27710,27712,27711,61,1877],"class_list":["post-55287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-international-journal-of-social-research-methodology","tag-national-health-service","tag-nhs","tag-peter-aspinall","tag-peter-j-aspinall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55288,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55287\/revisions\/55288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}