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Changing the map
— health in Britain 1951-91 | | Author(s) | Mary Shaw, Danny Dorling, Nic Brimblecombe |
| Journal title | Sociology of Health & Illness, vol 20, no 5, September 1998 |
| Pages | pp 694-709 |
| Keywords | Death rate [statistics] ; Health [elderly] ; Ill health ; Social class ; Local ; Geography. |
| Annotation | There are persistent and growing inequalities in mortality between groups of people in Britain as defined by the their social class. This paper shows that similar persistent and growing inequalities prevail between groups of people defined by district of residence. Although there is some confusion between these two ways of grouping people, there is a slight tendency for people of the same class to live in the same district. This paper reviews the geographical literature which may shed light on why inequalities in mortality are widening between districts in Britain. The authors present new data for a set of 293 unchanging districts by amalgamating published reports from the 1950s, 1960s and 19970s, with individual postcoded mortality records from the 1980s and 1990s, aggregated to 293 districts using a Geographical Information System and Census data from 1971, 1981 and 1991 (including estimates of residence of the 'missing million'). A growing proportion of premature deaths in Britain can be attributed to some aspect of rising spatial inequalities. Changing geographical inequalities in health are not simply a passive reflection of social inequalities. To begin to investigate them, they must first be measured properly. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981111001 A |
| Classmark | S5: CC: CH: T: 5CT: Y6M |
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