《種族與健康》是一本國際學術期刊，旨在滿足全世界對民族健康的興趣。它包含了從涉及調查“種族”與“健康”（包括醫學與護理、公共衛生、流行病學、社會科學、人口科學和統計學）之間關系的所有學科的原始論文。該雜志還涉及文化、宗教、性別、階級、移民、生活方式和種族主義等問題，涉及健康及其人類學和社會方面。該期刊的目標是：以深思熟慮和批判性的方式處理實踐和政策。鑒于存在爭議的“種族”和“健康”性質，以一種考慮理論問題以及政策和實踐影響的方式提供經驗材料。解決多文化社會中定性和定量研究所面臨的方法論問題。

Ethnicity & Health is an international academic journal designed to meet the world-wide interest in the health of ethnic groups. It embraces original papers from the full range of disciplines concerned with investigating the relationship between ’ethnicity’ and ’health’ (including medicine and nursing, public health, epidemiology, social sciences, population sciences, and statistics). The journal also covers issues of culture, religion, gender, class, migration, lifestyle and racism, in so far as they relate to health and its anthropological and social aspects.The journal aims to:Deal with practice and policy in a thoughtful and critical way.Present empirical material in a way that considers theoretical issues in addition to implications for policy and practice, given the contested nature of both ’ethnicity’ and ’health’.Address the methodological problems that face both qualitative and quantitative studies in multi-cultural societies.