Trends in socio-economic inequalities in mortality by sex in Ireland from the 1980s to the 2000s.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:It has been recognised for some time that mortality rates vary across social class groups, with lower rates in the higher social classes. Internationally, but particularly in Ireland, many studies on the topic of inequalities in mortality have been confined to men, partly because the most frequently used socioeconomic classification, that based on occupation, can less easily be applied to women. Where research does exist, studies indicate that health inequalities are greater for men than for women. Given the issues around classification, there remains however, little knowledge of the socio-economic inequalities in female mortality in Ireland. AIMS:Using annual mortality data from the Irish Central Statistics Office over the period 1984-2008 this paper calculates crude and standardised mortality rates per 100,000 population for men and women in different socio-economic groups (SEG) and examines trends in these over time. This means that for the first time, longitudinal comparisons can be made between men and women across an important period of recent Irish history. RESULTS:There is a significant gradient in mortality rates across SEG for both men and women with the absolute and relative differential between professional and manual occupational groups increasing between the 1980s and 2000s even though the mortality rates were falling over time for all SEG groups for both sexes. CONCLUSIONS:The results confirm international findings that women generally have smaller gradients than men across SEG with the ratio of male/female differentials (i.e. the ratio of the male SEG rate ratio to the female SEG rate ratio) decreasing between the 1980s and 2000s from 1.25 to 1.07.

journal_name

Ir J Med Sci

authors

Layte R,Banks J,Walsh C,McKnight G

doi

10.1007/s11845-014-1189-x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-09-01 00:00:00

pages

613-21

issue

3

eissn

0021-1265

issn

1863-4362

journal_volume

184

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