Illsley, Raymond and Le Grand, Julian 
ORCID: 0000-0002-7864-0118
(1993)
Regional inequalities in mortality.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 47 (6).
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 |
| Divisions: | Social Policy STICERD Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion |
| Subjects: | 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 |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jun 2008 15:30 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jan 2024 23:06 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/5685 |
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