Neighbourhood deprivation and excess coronary heart disease mortality and hospital admissions in Plymouth, UK: An ecological study

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 313-320

  Janghorbani, Mohsen ^a,d   Jones, Raymond B ^b   Nelder, Robert ^c  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c Plymouth Teaching Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Epidemiology; Excess mortality; Hospital admission; Mortality; Neighbourhood deprivation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY DISEASE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; POVERTY AREAS; SEX FACTORS; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 33745764445     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.61.3.2014834     Document Type: Article

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