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| Trends in regional deprivation and mortality using the Longitudinal Study | | Author(s) | Alison Reid, Seeromanie Harding |
| Journal title | Health Statistics Quarterly, 05, Spring 2000 |
| Pages | pp 17-25 |
| Keywords | Poverty ; Death rate [statistics] ; Regional ; Population statistics ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | There is evidence of widening inequalities in health over the past decade in England and Wales, but little is known on whether these trends differ by area. This paper examines trends in regional mortality using a deprivation index based on individual characteristics, and the 1981 cohort of the Office of Population and Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) Longitudinal Study. Generally, mortality levels and the proportions classified as deprived were lowest in the south. In 1991-97, the death rate of men aged 26-64 classified as most deprived was more than twice that of the least deprived in six of the nine regions. The level of inequality in a region (as measured by the ratio of death rate as most deprived to that of the least deprived) was not highest in the high mortality regions or lowest in the low mortality regions. Though not always statistically significant, there was a consistent pattern of widening inequality and death rates between the 1980s and the 1990s in most of the regions among men and women of working ages and older men. The widening inequality in mortality was due to consistent declines in the death rates of those least deprived and little or no decline in the death rates of those most deprived. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000412001 A |
| Classmark | W6: S5: 5CP: S4: 3J |
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