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Association between area-level socioeconomic deprivation and a cluster of behavioural risk factors: cross-sectional, population-based study.
- Source :
- Journal of Public Health; Jun2011, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p234-245, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- Background The Commission on Social Determinants of Health has urged governments across the world to promote health equity by reducing the gap between the most and least deprived individuals in society. Some of this gap can be bridged by promoting healthy lifestyles through targeted Public Health policy and interventions. Methods Cross-sectional analyses of data on behavioural risk factors, individual socioeconomic factors and neighbourhood deprivation score collected from 26 290 adults aged over 16 years who participated in the 2008 East of England Lifestyle Survey. Results After adjustment for individual socioeconomic factors, across quintiles of increasing neighbourhood deprivation, participants were more likely to smoke and less likely to consume five portions of fruit and vegetables on five or more days of the week (least deprived versus most deprived quintile: odds ratios for not smoking 0.45 (0.41–0.50); and fruit and vegetable consumption 0.70 (0.64–0.76), P-trend <0.0001). Greater neighbourhood deprivation and lower occupational social class were independently associated with a lower summary healthy lifestyle score (both P-trend <0.0001). Conclusions Public health interventions aimed at reducing health inequalities by targeting behavioural risk factors may focus in particular on reducing smoking and increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in more deprived communities. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- ANALYSIS of variance
COMPARATIVE studies
CONFIDENCE intervals
STATISTICAL correlation
DIET
ALCOHOL drinking
EPIDEMIOLOGY
HEALTH promotion
INTERVIEWING
MATHEMATICAL models
PUBLIC health
RESEARCH funding
RISK-taking behavior
SMOKING
SOCIAL classes
STATISTICS
SURVEYS
DATA analysis
MULTIPLE regression analysis
RESIDENTIAL patterns
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
LIFESTYLES
CROSS-sectional method
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17413842
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 61047552
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdq072