Geographical Patterns in Drug-Related Mortality and Suicide: Investigating Commonalities in English Small Areas

There are increasing concerns regarding upward trends in drug-related deaths in a number of developed societies. In some countries, these have been paralleled by upward trends in suicide. Of frequent concern to public health policy are local variations in these outcomes, and the factors underlying t...

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Autor principal: Congdon, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6572137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31126097
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101831
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description There are increasing concerns regarding upward trends in drug-related deaths in a number of developed societies. In some countries, these have been paralleled by upward trends in suicide. Of frequent concern to public health policy are local variations in these outcomes, and the factors underlying them. In this paper, we consider the geographic pattern of drug-related deaths and suicide for 2012–2016 across 6791 small areas in England. The aim is to establish the extent of commonalities in area risk factors between the two outcomes, with a particular focus on impacts of deprivation, fragmentation and rurality.
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spelling pubmed-65721372019-06-18 Geographical Patterns in Drug-Related Mortality and Suicide: Investigating Commonalities in English Small Areas Congdon, Peter Int J Environ Res Public Health Article There are increasing concerns regarding upward trends in drug-related deaths in a number of developed societies. In some countries, these have been paralleled by upward trends in suicide. Of frequent concern to public health policy are local variations in these outcomes, and the factors underlying them. In this paper, we consider the geographic pattern of drug-related deaths and suicide for 2012–2016 across 6791 small areas in England. The aim is to establish the extent of commonalities in area risk factors between the two outcomes, with a particular focus on impacts of deprivation, fragmentation and rurality. MDPI 2019-05-23 2019-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6572137/ /pubmed/31126097 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101831 Text en © 2019 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Geographical Patterns in Drug-Related Mortality and Suicide: Investigating Commonalities in English Small Areas
title_sort geographical patterns in drug-related mortality and suicide: investigating commonalities in english small areas
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6572137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31126097
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101831
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