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The health care experience and health behaviour of the Chinese: a survey based in Hull
I. S. Watt, Senior Registrar/Visiting Lecturer in Public Health Medicine
D. Howel, Lecturer in Medical Statistics*
L. Lo
Hull Health Authority/University of Leeds Leeds
University of Leeds Leeds
Address Correspondence to I. S. Watt at Department of Public Health Medicine, Hull Health Authority, Victoria House, Park Street, Hull HU2 8TD.
Lack of knowledge about the health care experience and health behaviour of an important ethnic minority group prompted a study to inform the provision of health care and promote local action in Hull. Thirty Chinese ‘takeaway’ shops were randomly selected from the Yellow Pages of the Hull telephone directory, and all Chinese people working in them asked to complete a questionnaire. It contained questions on their knowledge, use and experience of primary health care and health promotion, together with aspects of their health behaviour. The same questionnaire in English was delivered to all workers in 30 fish and chip shops, to provide a White comparison group. Eighty (71 per cent) of the Chinese returned their questionnaire, and 73 (67 per cent) were returned from the chip-shop workers. The results indicate that the Chinese in Hull are not making optimal use of health services; they use some services inappropriately, whereas others, such as preventive health programmes, are under-used. One of the main reasons is identified as the language/communication difficulties faced by many Chinese. Other reasons are also highlighted and their implications discussed. The findings of this survey are in keeping with the mainly unpublished work undertaken elsewhere on this comparatively little researched ethnic minority group.
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