Illsley, Raymond and Le Grand, Julian (1993) Regional inequalities in mortality. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 47 (6). pp. 444-449. ISSN 0143-005X
Abstract
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To examine the hypothesis of sustained and persistent inequalities in health between British regions and to ask how far they are a consequence of using standardised mortality ratios as the tool of measurement. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS--Data are regional, age specific death rates at seven points in time from 1931 to 1987-89 for the British regions, reconstructed to make them comparable with the 1981 regional definitions. Log variance is used to measure inequality; regional rankings are also used. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS--There has been a substantial convergence in age specific death rates between regions in younger but not in older age groups. In younger age groups the historic north/south gradient has disappeared; it persists in older groups. CONCLUSIONS--Use of standardised mortality ratios obscures differences in the convergence rates of age specific death rates between regions. Simple conclusions about the persistence of a north/south divide are not justified. Different processes of change seem to be at work in different age groups.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://jech.bmj.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 1993 BMJ Publishing Group |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Sets: | Departments > Social Policy Collections > Economists Online Research centres and groups > LSE Health and Social Care Research centres and groups > Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) Research centres and groups > Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jun 2008 15:30 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/5685/ |
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