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Making life better: improving the knowledge and practice in health provision to black and minority ethnic communities' - Birmingham

The conference took place on 25 January 2007 in Birmingham. This event provided an opportunity to explore evidence on the health needs and experiences of black and minority ethnic communities as well as how to improve policy and practice. The event enabled delegates to:

• Develop a critical understanding of the extent and content of evidence on health inequalities;
• Explore examples of what can work to improve health provision for black and minority ethnic communities;
• Share knowledge on how to bring about change in the provision of health for these communities; and
• Provided a forum for networking and action planning amongst front line staff, managers and their organisations.

The Key note speech was given by Gurch Randhawa, Professor of Diversity in Public Health, University of Bedfordshire

• Tackling health inequalities: Underlying factors and approaches to addressing them (131kb PDF file)
  Professor Gurch Randhawa, Institute for Health Research

Workshops and presentations

• Effective community engagement (241kb PDf file),
  Race Equality Foundation.
• Promoting better practice - the experience of the Race for Health Programme (79kb PDF file),
  Evelyn Asante-Mensah, OBE, Chair - Race for Health.
• The NLH Specialist Library for Ethnicity & Health: Contributing to improving services (191kb PDF file),
  Mark R D Johnson, The Centre for Evidence in Ethnicity Health & Diversity, Mary Seacole Research Centre.
• User Involvement in the Mental Health Service (22kb PDf file),
  Patricia Chambers

For further information on this event or the health and housing project, contact Ronny Flynn on 020 7619 6236.