Ethnicity, Disability and Chronic Illness

This chapter aims to: • Understand how patterns of disablement and chronic illness may partly derive from levels of material deprivation. • Illustrate why it may be important to look at the interactions not only between ethnicity and disablement, but between other factors such as age, gender, socio-economic status.
• Show why it is important to interpret official figures on disability and ethnicity with care; and how cultural explanations from a policy perspective might worsen inequalities. • Understand the changing policy contexts associated with increased racism and disability discrimination. .