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The European Journal of Public Health 2007 17(3):240-241; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckm040
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Racism in health and health care in Europe: where does the Netherlands stand?

Charles Agyemang, Conny Seeleman, Jeanine Suurmond and Karien Stronks

Department of Social Medicine Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Postbus 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam The Netherlands

Correspondence: Charles Agyemang, Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Postbus 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands, tel: 0031(0)20 5664885; fax: 0031(0)20 6972316; e-mail: c.o.agyemang@amc.uva.nl

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Racial discrimination is a sensitive and difficult topic. The lack of systematic evidence of racism in many European countries leads to an automatic assumption that racism does not play a role in society. Where evidence exists, there is reluctance to acknowledge the reality of discrimination.

Bhopal touched on this sensitive topic and emphasised that if discrimination is left unchecked, the economic, social, scientific and political circumstances that allowed Hitler's policies to flourish could return.1 To most well-meaning . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Racism in health and health care
 

   The Dutch perspective
 

   Racism in health and health care in the Netherlands
 

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