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Maria Pallayova, Marek Brenisin, Alina Putrya, Martin Vrsko, Sylvia Drazilova, Martin Janicko, Maria Marekova, Daniel Pella, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Peter Urdzik, Peter Jarcuska and HepaMeta Team
Background: Health characteristics associated with uric acid (UA) in the Roma minority remain less well known. The study sought to determine the ethnicity- and sex-specific associations of serum UA with health factors in Eastern Slovakian Roma and non-Ro...
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Kabir Tombat and Jitse P. van Dijk
The Roma are Europe?s largest minority. They are also one of its most disadvantaged, with low levels of education and health and high levels of poverty. Research on Roma health often reveals higher burdens of disease in the communities studied. This pape...
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Eszter Anna Janka, Ferenc Vincze, Róza Ádány and János Sándor
The Roma population is typified by a poor and, due to difficulties in ethnicity assessment, poorly documented health status. We aimed to compare the usefulness of self-reporting and observer-reporting in Roma classification for surveys investigating diff...
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Jelen Amador López, Ramón Flecha García and Teresa Sordé Martí
Background: High incidences of drug consumption and mental health problems are found among the Roma population in Spain, a reality that remains understudied. Past studies have indicated the positive role played by the Iglesia Evangélica Filadelfia (IEF) ...
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Emilia Aiello, Ainhoa Flecha and Olga Serradell
Whereas the topic of the ?cultural sensitivity? of healthcare systems has been addressed extensively in the US and the UK, literature on the subject in most European countries, specifically looking at the situation of Roma, is still scarce. Drawing on qu...
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Gabriel Kolvek, Zuzana Straussova, Maria Majernikova, Jaroslav Rosenberger and Jitse P. van Dijk
Background: Roma health has not been studied systematically. Thus far, it has been shown that Roma compared to non-Roma have a significantly higher likelihood of getting end-stage renal disease and that their chances for survival on dialysis are lower. E...
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Marisa A. Nunes, Kristýna Kucerová, Ondrej Lukác, Milan Kvapil and Jan Bro?
Background: The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the Roma population and compare it to the prevalence in the Caucasian population. Methods: Using the words “Roma”, “Gypsies”, “Romani&r...
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