title: Travellers' tales.
abstract: Gypsies and travelling families face discrimination in access to health care as well as in the wider community, with the result that infant mortality rates remain high and child immunisation rates low.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lynch
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D009721:Nurse Midwives / Q000523:psychology; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000208:ethnology; D011287:Prejudice; D006178:Romani People / Q000208:ethnology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology