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What are the links between ethnicity and mental health?

Posted on January 22, 2015October 9, 2017 by Christine Garrington

What are the links between ethnicity and mental health? Do children aged 7 from certain ethnic backgrounds exhibit more socio-emotional difficulties than their white counterparts? Afshin Zilanawala from the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies at UCL talks to Christine Garrington about new findings from the Millennium Cohort Study.

Ethnic Differences in Children’s Socioemotional Difficulties: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study is research by Afshin Zilanawala, Amanda Sacker, James Nazroo and Yvonne Kelly.

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