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Jordan, KP, Hayward, R, Roberts, E, Edwards, JJ and Kadam, UT (2014) The relationship of individual and neighbourhood deprivation with morbidity in older adults: an observational study. The European Journal of Public Health, 24 (3). 396 - 398. ISSN 1464-360X
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Abstract
The objective was to determine the relative association of social class and neighbourhood deprivation with primary care consultation for eight morbidities. In 18,047 survey responders aged ≥50 years, living in more deprived neighbourhoods was independently associated with new consultation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ischaemic heart disease, diabetes, asthma and depression. Lower social class was associated with diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. No such associations were found with otitis media, osteoarthritis or upper respiratory tract infection. These findings suggest a role of social environment in certain morbidities and indicate the importance of identifying and acting on neighbourhood deprivation to reduce health inequalities.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | © The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Primary Care Health Sciences |
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Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 24 Oct 2016 08:26 |
Last Modified: | 30 Aug 2018 15:19 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/2319 |