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An index of unhealthy lifestyle is associated with coronary heart disease mortality rates for small areas in England after adjustment for deprivation
Indices of socio-economic deprivation are often used as a proxy for differences in the health behaviours of populations within small areas, but these indices are a measure of the economic environment rather than the health environment. Sets of synthetic estimates of the ward-level prevalence of low...
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3065015/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21216177 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.12.007 |
Sumario: | Indices of socio-economic deprivation are often used as a proxy for differences in the health behaviours of populations within small areas, but these indices are a measure of the economic environment rather than the health environment. Sets of synthetic estimates of the ward-level prevalence of low fruit and vegetable consumption, obesity, raised blood pressure, raised cholesterol and smoking were combined to develop an index of unhealthy lifestyle. Multi-level regression models showed that this index described about 50% of the large-scale geographic variation in CHD mortality rates in England, and substantially adds to the ability of an index of deprivation to explain geographic variations in CHD mortality rates. |
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