PMID: 8611787Feb 3, 1996Paper

Deprivation and cause specific morbidity: evidence from the Somerset and Avon survey of health

BMJ : British Medical Journal
J EachusS Frankel

Abstract

To investigate the association between cause specific morbidity and deprivation in order to inform the debates on inequalities in health and health services resource allocation. Cross sectional postal questionnaire survey ascertaining self reported health status, with validation of a 20% sample through general practitioner and hospital records. Inner city, urban, and rural areas of Avon and Somerset. Stratified random sample of 28,080 people aged 35 and over from 40 general practices. Age and sex standardised prevalence of various diseases; Townsend deprivation scores were assigned by linking postcodes to enumeration districts. Relative indices of inequality were calculated to estimate the magnitude of the association between socioeconomic position and morbidity. The response rate was 85.3%. The prevalence of most of the conditions rose with increasing material deprivation. The relative index of inequalilty, for both sexes combined, was greater than 1 for all conditions except diabetes. The conditions most strongly associated with deprivation were diabetic eye disease (relative index of inequality 3.21; 95% confidence interval 1.84 to 5.59), emphysema (2.72; 1.67 to 4.43) and bronchitis (2.27; 1.92 to 2.68). The relative index ...Continue Reading

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