Many professionals still believe that registration of ethnicity in hospitals is not allowed. Jeanine Suurmond argues in 'De Volkskrant' that this is a crucial misunderstanding.

While many researchers, healthcare providers, directors and policy makers still believe that registration of ethnicity in hospitals is not allowed, APH researchers Corrette Ploem (assistant professor at Amsterdam UMC) and Jeanine Suurmond (senior researcher at Amsterdam UMC) argue in 'De Volkskrant' that this is a crucial and persisting misunderstanding about the implications of the current data protection principles.

Read the full article in 'De Volkskrant' (in Dutch).