Socioeconomic deprivation and notification rates for tuberculosis in London during 1982-91.

Abstract:

OBJECTIVES:To investigate the association between four sociodemographic measures (unemployment, overcrowding, low social class, and the proportion of migrants from areas of high prevalence of tuberculosis) and average level and rate of change of notification rates for tuberculosis. DESIGN:Ecological analysis of both the average and the rate of change of standardised annual notification rates for tuberculosis from 1982-91 and sociodemographic measures from the 1981 and 1991 censuses. SETTING:32 London boroughs. SUBJECTS AND DATA: Sociodemographic measures from the 1981 and 1991 censuses and tuberculosis notification rates for 1982-91. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:A measure of the association between average levels and rate of change in tuberculosis notification rates and four sociodemographic measures in 1981 and between the rate of change in tuberculosis notification rates between 1981 and 1991 and changes in sociodemographic measures between 1981 and 1991. RESULTS:The average level of notifications was correlated with overcrowding and the proportion of migrants but not with unemployment or social class. No significant association was found between the rate of change in notification rates and sociodemographic measures in 1981. An association was found between increases in unemployment and the rate of change in notification rates, but the effect was small. Changes in the levels of unemployment explained 23% of the variation between boroughs in the rate of change in their notification rates. CONCLUSION:The average tuberculosis notification rates were related to overcrowding and the proportion of migrants in 1981. Only increases in unemployment from 1981 to 1991, however, were significantly associated with the rate of change in notifications over the same period.

journal_name

BMJ

authors

Mangtani P,Jolley DJ,Watson JM,Rodrigues LC

doi

10.1136/bmj.310.6985.963

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-04-15 00:00:00

pages

963-6

issue

6985

eissn

0959-8138

issn

1756-1833

journal_volume

310

pub_type

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