The association between social position and self-rated health in 10 deprived neighbourhoods

BMC Public Health

Unni Dokkedal³  Pernille Tanggaard Andersen²  Carsten Kronborg Bak¹ 

[1] Department of Health Science and Technology, Unit of Epidemiology and Public Health, Niels Jernes Vej 14, Aalborg, 9220, Denmark;Unit of Health Promotion, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Niels Bohrs Vej 9, Esbjerg, 6700, Denmark;Unit of Epidemiologym Biostatistics and Biodemography, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, J.B. Winsløwsvej 9B, Odense, 5000, Denmark

关键词: Index for life resources;    Deprived neighbourhood;    Social position;    Self-rated health;   

Others  :  1090753
DOI  :  10.1186/s12889-015-1377-2

 received in 2014-08-20, accepted in 2015-01-08,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

A number of studies have shown that poor self-rated health is more prevalent among people in poor, socially disadvantaged positions. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between self-rated health and social position in 10 deprived neighbourhoods.

Methods

A stratified random sample of 7,934 households was selected. Of these, 641 were excluded from the study because the residents had moved, died, or were otherwise unavailable. Of the net sample of 7,293 individuals, 1,464 refused to participate, 885 were not at home, and 373 did not participate for other reasons, resulting in an average response rate of 62.7%. Multiple logistic regression models were used to estimate the associations between the number of life resources and the odds of self-rated health and also between the type of neighbourhood and the odds of self-rated health.

Results

The analysis shows that the number of life resources is significantly associated with having poor/very poor self-rated health for both genders. The results clearly suggest that the more life resources that an individual has, the lower the risk is of that individual reporting poor/very poor health.

Conclusions

The results show a strong association between residents’ number of life resources and their self-rated health. In particular, residents in deprived rural neighbourhoods have much better self-rated health than do residents in deprived urban neighbourhoods, but further studies are needed to explain these urban/rural differences and to determine how they influence health.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Bak et al.; licensee BioMed Central.

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