Discuss inequalities in health according to ethnicity and evaluate sociological explanations.
Your essay should cover the following:
• Introduction to essay
• Explain the biological as opposed to the cultural basis for differentiating groups
• Define "race" and "ethnicity". You must be able to clearly distinguish different definitions of race and ethnicity and evaluate them
• Explain Sociologists study of race as a social definition
• Discuss statistics on health and ethnicity
• Provide both evidence of unequal health needs and treatment and be able to explain the possible causes of this/sociological explanations for health inequalities in respect of ethnicity
• Give criticisms of sociological explanations with reference to data
• Conclusion