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Rheumatology 2004 43(11):1321-1322; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/keh327
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Rheumatology Vol. 43 No. 11 © British Society for Rheumatology 2004; all rights reserved

EDITORIAL

Patient education for diverse populations

A. Adebajo1,2, L. Blenkiron3 and P. Dieppe3,4

1 Department of Rheumatology, Barnsley District General Hospital, 2 Academic Rheumatology Group, University of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 3 Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol and 4 MRC Health Service Research Collaboration, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Correspondence to: A. Adebajo, Academic Rheumatology Group, Division of Genomic Medicine, M Floor, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Beechill Road, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK. E-mail: a.o.adebajo@sheffield.ac.uk

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All governments are, at least publicly, committed to providing good-quality health-care for all members of their population. Recently, equity in health-care provision has become a major plank of the UK Government's health-care policy [1, 2]. Similarly in the USA, there have been recent stakeholder conferences and pronouncements from the Senate on ensuring adequate levels of health-care provision for minority groups.

Patient education is a major aspect of health-care provision. This can be provided in a number of ways, including written materials and multimedia presentations.

In the UK, most current approaches depend on literacy in English. This has the potential to exclude minority groups and disadvantaged people. If such people are unable to access services that are available they cannot then profit from them. Social exclusion co-locates with learning difficulties, other disabilities, poor education, economic disadvantage and ethnic minorities, all of which are interrelated [3, 4. . . [Full Text of this Article]


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