Description

Much of literature re ers to the act that Travellers (or more specifically Romani Gypsies)have been granted ethnic minority status or the purposes of the Race Relations Act 1976.

This article outlines the health and healthcare experience of Travellers in Britain and brief ly describes a specialist project designed to meet their health needs as well as identifying some appropriate questions or managers to ref lect on when developing a comprehensive strategy to improve the quality of services to this section of the population. It is also important to be able to separate

cultural/behavioral actors from more material ones.How far are Travellers health problems related to their low socio- economic position,how much to the poor quality of the sites they o ten inhabit and how much to traveling itself?And how ar do these problems re lect their experiences of discrimination and rejection?