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The Association between Material Deprivation and Avoidable Mortality in Lisbon, Portugal
There is considerable evidence pointing to the existence of a socioeconomic gradient in mortality, which tends to be steeper in urban areas. Similar to other European cities, Lisbon is far from homogeneous since considerable geographical inequalities exist between the more advantaged and the more de...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7698341/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33212953 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228517 |
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author | Costa, Claudia Freitas, Angela Almendra, Ricardo Santana, Paula |
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description | There is considerable evidence pointing to the existence of a socioeconomic gradient in mortality, which tends to be steeper in urban areas. Similar to other European cities, Lisbon is far from homogeneous since considerable geographical inequalities exist between the more advantaged and the more deprived neighborhoods. The main goals of this study are to describe the geographical pattern of premature deaths (before 65 years old), avoidable deaths (preventable and amenable to healthcare) and cause-specific mortality (HIV/AIDS and suicide) in Lisbon, at the lower administrative level (civil parish, in Portuguese: Freguesia), and analyze the statistical association between mortality risk and deprivation, before (1999–2003) and during the economic crisis (2008–2012). Smoothed Standardized Mortality Ratios (sSMR) and Relative Risk (RR) with 95% credible intervals were calculated to identify the association between mortality and deprivation. The analysis of the geographical distribution of cause-specific mortality reveals that civil parishes with high sSMR in the first period continued to present higher mortality rates in the second. Moreover, a significant statistical association was found between all the causes of death and deprivation, except suicide. These findings contribute to understanding how social conditions influence health outcomes and can offer insights about potential policy directions for local government. |
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spelling | pubmed-76983412020-11-29 The Association between Material Deprivation and Avoidable Mortality in Lisbon, Portugal Costa, Claudia Freitas, Angela Almendra, Ricardo Santana, Paula Int J Environ Res Public Health Article There is considerable evidence pointing to the existence of a socioeconomic gradient in mortality, which tends to be steeper in urban areas. Similar to other European cities, Lisbon is far from homogeneous since considerable geographical inequalities exist between the more advantaged and the more deprived neighborhoods. The main goals of this study are to describe the geographical pattern of premature deaths (before 65 years old), avoidable deaths (preventable and amenable to healthcare) and cause-specific mortality (HIV/AIDS and suicide) in Lisbon, at the lower administrative level (civil parish, in Portuguese: Freguesia), and analyze the statistical association between mortality risk and deprivation, before (1999–2003) and during the economic crisis (2008–2012). Smoothed Standardized Mortality Ratios (sSMR) and Relative Risk (RR) with 95% credible intervals were calculated to identify the association between mortality and deprivation. The analysis of the geographical distribution of cause-specific mortality reveals that civil parishes with high sSMR in the first period continued to present higher mortality rates in the second. Moreover, a significant statistical association was found between all the causes of death and deprivation, except suicide. These findings contribute to understanding how social conditions influence health outcomes and can offer insights about potential policy directions for local government. MDPI 2020-11-17 2020-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7698341/ /pubmed/33212953 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228517 Text en © 2020 by the authors. 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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Costa, Claudia Freitas, Angela Almendra, Ricardo Santana, Paula The Association between Material Deprivation and Avoidable Mortality in Lisbon, Portugal |
title | The Association between Material Deprivation and Avoidable Mortality in Lisbon, Portugal |
title_full | The Association between Material Deprivation and Avoidable Mortality in Lisbon, Portugal |
title_fullStr | The Association between Material Deprivation and Avoidable Mortality in Lisbon, Portugal |
title_full_unstemmed | The Association between Material Deprivation and Avoidable Mortality in Lisbon, Portugal |
title_short | The Association between Material Deprivation and Avoidable Mortality in Lisbon, Portugal |
title_sort | association between material deprivation and avoidable mortality in lisbon, portugal |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7698341/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33212953 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228517 |
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