Why the Scots die younger: synthesizing the evidence

Public Health
Gerry McCartneyG D Batty

Abstract

To identify explanations for the higher mortality in Scotland relative to other European countries, and to synthesize those best supported by evidence into an overall explanatory framework. Review and dialectical synthesis. Candidate hypotheses were identified based on a literature review and a series of research dissemination events. Each hypothesis was described and critically evaluated in relation to the Bradford-Hill criteria for causation in observational epidemiology. A synthesis of the more convincing hypotheses was then attempted using a broadly 'dialectical' approach. Seventeen hypotheses were identified including: artefactual explanations (deprivation, migration); 'downstream explanations' (genetics, health behaviours, individual values); 'midstream' explanations (substance misuse; culture of boundlessness and alienation; family, gender relations and parenting differences; lower social capital; sectarianism; culture of limited social mobility; health service supply or demand; deprivation concentration); and 'upstream' explanations (climate, inequalities, de-industrialization, political attack). There is little evidence available to determine why mortality rates diverged between Scotland and other European countries be...Continue Reading

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