ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2018
Do patients who die from an alcohol-related condition 'drift' into areas of greater deprivation? Alcohol-related mortality and health selection theory in Scotland.
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- A systematic review of the association between alcohol-related deaths and area-level socioeconomic deprivation and other geographic characteristics in high-income countries.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Multivariate spatiotemporal modeling of drug- and alcohol-poisoning deaths in New York City, 2009-2014.Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology · 2020Article
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backgroundHealth selection has been proposed to explain the patterning of alcohol-related mortality by area deprivation. This study investigated whether persons who die from alcohol-related conditions are more likely to experience social drift than those who die from other causes.
methodsDeaths recorded in Scotland (2013,
resultsOf 47 012 deaths, 1458 were alcohol-related. Upward and downward mobility was observed for both types of death. An estimated 31 more deaths than expected were classified 'alcohol-related' among cases whose deprivation score decreased, while 204 more deaths than expected were classified 'alcohol-related' among cases whose initial deprivation ranking was in the four most deprived deciles. Becoming more deprived and first deprivation category were both associated with increased odds of type of death being alcohol-related after adjusting for confounders.
conclusionThis study suggests that health selection appears to contribute less to the deprivation gradient in alcohol-related mortality in Scotland than an individual's initial area deprivation category.
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