International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Article Prevalence of Chronic Diseases and Activity-Limiting Disability among Roma and Non-Roma People: A Cross-Sectional, Census-Based Investigation Ferenc Vincze 1,2 , Anett Földvári 1,2, Anita Pálinkás 1,2, Valéria Sipos 1,2, Eszter Anna Janka 3, Róza Ádány 4,5,6 and János Sándor 1,* 1 Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, University of Debrecen, Kassai St 26/B, H-4028 Debrecen, Hungary;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +3620-932-3140 Received: 31 August 2019; Accepted: 25 September 2019; Published: 26 September 2019 Abstract: The lack of recommended design for Roma health-monitoring hinders the interventions to improve the health status of this ethnic minority. We aim to describe the riskiness of Roma ethnicity using census-derived data and to demonstrate the value of census for monitoring the Roma to non-Roma gap.