Pathways from deprivation to health differed between individual and neighbourhood-based indices

van Jaarsveld, C.H.M. and Miles, Anne and Wardle, J. (2007) Pathways from deprivation to health differed between individual and neighbourhood-based indices. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 60 (7), pp. 712-719. ISSN 0895-4356.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.10.005

Abstract

Objective To explore the role of behavioral and psychosocial factors in explaining the social gradient in self-rated health as defined either by an individual or a neighborhood deprivation index. Study Design and Setting Data were from the baseline survey of the UK Flexible Sigmoidoscopy trial. Recruitment through general practices was stratified to generate a socioeconomically diverse sample (N=5,253, aged 55–64). Assessments included an individual and neighborhood deprivation index, each of which were categorized in four levels; three behavioral and three psychosocial factors; and self-rated health. Results Neighborhood deprivation was more strongly related to behavioral than to psychosocial factors, whereas individual deprivation was strongly related to both. The social gradient in poor self-rated health (odds in most compared to least deprived group) was 6.5 for individual and 4.2 for the neighborhood deprivation index. Behavioral and psychosocial variables explained, respectively, 7% and 11% of the individual deprivation gradient and 11% and 4% of the neighborhood gradient. The psychosocial pathway did not significantly mediate the neighborhood deprivation effect on self-rated health. Conclusion Intermediary pathways of the social gradient in self-rated health differed between individual and neighborhood-based deprivation indices, suggesting at least partly independent influences on poor health of individual and neighborhood-level deprivation.

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Item Type:	Article
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
Depositing User:	Sarah Hall
Date Deposited:	07 Jan 2020 14:11
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2023 17:56
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30525

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