Addressing health inequalities in infection and antimicrobial resistant infections: a UK-wide collaborative toolkit

Ethnicity

Resources for addressing ethnicity-related health inequalities in antimicrobial resistance.

People from some ethnic groups may be disproportionately affected by drug-resistant infections due to structural inequalities, differences in exposure risk, and barriers to accessing culturally appropriate healthcare. These are factors that intersectional AMR research identifies as drivers of inequitable AMR exposure and outcomes.

Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) Toolkit – ARC East Midlands (Version 9)

Summary

Toolkit to integrate equality considerations across the research lifecycle. Includes step by step guidance, templates, action planning and sources of evidence to support inclusive research practice.

Population: Ethnicity
Type: Toolkit
Link: Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) Toolkit
Year: 2025
Available in another language: No
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Encouraging participation in bowel screening – barriers, inequalities, and interventions

Summary

Evidence‑based review of common barriers (fear, misconceptions, practical/cleanliness concerns, low risk perception, forgetting, low health literacy/language) and groups with lower participation. Includes the Bowel Grid tool to target interventions.

Population: Ethnicity
Type: Online resource: guidance
Link: Encouraging participation in bowel screening
Year: 2025
Available in another language: No
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Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT)

Summary

Framework and structured assessment tool to help organisations identify, assess and address health inequalities within services and programmes, incorporating equity considerations into planning, delivery and evaluation.

Population: Ethnicity
Type: Toolkit
Link: Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT)
Year: 2024
Available in another language: No
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Tackling TB in inclusion health groups: toolkit for a multi-agency approach

Summary

Toolkit providing practical guidance for multi agency working to improve prevention, diagnosis and management of tuberculosis in inclusion health groups, addressing barriers to access and supporting coordinated action to reduce health inequalities.

Population: Ethnicity
Type: Toolkit
Link: Tackling TB in inclusion health groups
Year: 2024
Available in another language: No
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Management of BAME patients with a history of penicillin allergy: barriers to best practice and strategies to overcome these

Summary

Review of barriers and strategies to improve best practice management of patients from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds with penicillin allergy labels, addressing assessment, de labelling and safe prescribing.

Population: Ethnicity: Asian
Type: Journal article
Link: See the full article
Year: 2023
Available in another language: No
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Summary

Review of barriers and strategies to improve best practice management of patients from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds with penicillin allergy labels, addressing assessment, de labelling and safe prescribing.

Population: Ethnicity: Black
Type: Journal article
Link: See the full article
Year: 2023
Available in another language: No
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Summary

Review of barriers and strategies to improve best practice management of patients from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds with penicillin allergy labels, addressing assessment, de labelling and safe prescribing.

Population: Ethnicity: other ethnic minorities
Type: Journal article
Link: See the full article
Year: 2023
Available in another language: No
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