Why don't segregated Roma do more for their health? An explanatory framework from an ethnographic study in Slovakia.

Andrej BelakAndrea Madarasova GeckovaJitse P van DijkSijmen A Reijneveld

Published in: International journal of public health (2018)

Non-Roma ideologies, internalized by Roma into a racialized ethnic identity through socialization, and drawbacks in adherence might present powerful, yet neglected, mechanisms supporting segregated Roma nonadherence.

Keyphrases

healthcare
mental health
type diabetes
metabolic syndrome
risk assessment