Gypsies
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Health and use of health services: a comparison between Gypsies and Travellers and other ethnic groups.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVES: To examine the health status of adults from black and minority ethnic groups and from a socio-economically mixed White population, all resident in England. DESIGN: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey using validated standardised ... Read more...

The education of Romany health and social assistants in the Czech Republic.

30 May 2009 AIM: This paper presents the Czech national pilot project - the first educational course of Romany health and social assistants for community work with the Romany population in excluded communities. BACKGROUND: The Romany people are the biggest ... Read more...

Revisiting MSUD in Portuguese Gypsies: evidence for a founder mutation and for a mutational hotspot within the BCKDHA gene.

29 Apr 2009 Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of branched-chain amino acid metabolism. In the context of the wide mutational spectrum known for this disease, a few common mutations have been described in populations where ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Gypsies'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Health and use of health services: a comparison between Gypsies and Travellers and other ethnic groups. 30 Jul 2009
• The education of Romany health and social assistants in the Czech Republic. 30 May 2009
• Revisiting MSUD in Portuguese Gypsies: evidence for a founder mutation and for a mutational hotspot within the BCKDHA gene. 29 Apr 2009
• Early predictors of reading in three groups of native Spanish speakers: Spaniards, Gypsies, and Latin Americans. 29 Apr 2009
• Attitudes of adolescent Spanish Roma toward noninjection drug use and risky sexual behavior. 16 Mar 2009
• Bipolar disorder in the Bulgarian Gypsies: genetic heterogeneity in a young founder population. 3 Mar 2009
• Migration and health in Italy: a multiethnic adult sample. 27 Feb 2009
• The health needs of the Slovak Roma community in Sheffield. 27 Feb 2009
• [Chronic hepatitis C virus infection and associated liver disease among the inmates of a Spanish prison] 23 Feb 2009
• To what extent does socioeconomic status explain differences in health between Roma and non-Roma adolescents in Slovakia? 9 Feb 2009
• [Eating habits in children under 2 years old according to ethnic origin in a Barcelona urban area] 5 Feb 2009
• Genetically determined neuromuscular disorders of some Roma families living in Hungary. 28 Jan 2009
• Different head morphology of full-term gypsy and non-gypsy newborns from Slovak Republic. 30 Dec 2008
• Anthropometry, nutrition status and thymic size of Gypsy newborns from southwestern Slovakia. 30 Dec 2008
• Some cardiovascular risk factors in Gypsy children and adolescents from Central Slovakia. 30 Dec 2008
• Health behaviors, nutritional status, and anthropometric parameters of Roma and non-Roma mothers and their infants in the Czech Republic. 30 Dec 2008
• Health of Roma children in Vilnius and Ventspils. 30 Dec 2008
• An STR database on the Volga-Ural population. 21 Dec 2008
• [Screening for hereditary neuromuscular disorders with molecular genetic methods in the Roma population of Hungary] 28 Nov 2008
• Inequalities. The road less travelled. 7 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Gypsies'

Definition: Ethnic group originating in India and entering Europe in the 14th or 15th century.

Descriptor UI: D006178

Alternative terms: Gypsies; Gipsies; Romanies; Romany;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; ethnology; genetics;

Tree Number: M01.686.754.283;

History Note: 91(79); was see under ETHNIC GROUPS 1979-90

Technical Notes: use this spelling in translations; specify geog