BME Health Improvment

BME Health Improvement

SYCIL now has a Health Improvement Worker for disabled people from Doncaster's Black and Minority Ethnic Communities (including asylum seekers, refugees, gypsies and travelers).

Jane Kidd will work with BME communities to find ways of improving their health and help individuals from the BME communities to use the health service when they need it.

Jane will help members of the BME community to:

Find out about health care that is available
Find out about healthy living
Find out about health screening
Identify the equipment and aids needed to live independently

Jane will also act as a supportive link between individuals and health care.

The things that make us healthy or unhealthy such as what we eat, whether we exercise,smoke, use drugs or how much alcohol we drink are the same whatever community we come from. However numerous studies have shown that many illnesses are much more common in BME communities. For example diabetes is up to six times more common in people who come from South Asian countries and they are also more at risk of suffering stroke than the general population. Stroke is also a very serious problem for African-Caribbean people in Britain. African-Caribbean's are estimated to be twice as likely to have a stroke as Europeans.

Jane will work with members of the BME communities to make sure they have access to information that enables them to lead healthy lives and make them less likely to suffer chronic disease.

Jane can work with individuals or groups from the BME communities.

Please contact Jane by telephone on 01302 892949 or email Jane for more information.