Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality from conditions amenable to medical interventions: do they reflect inequalities in access or quality of health care?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-346" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-346</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-346" target="_blank" >10.1186/1471-2458-12-346</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality from conditions amenable to medical interventions: do they reflect inequalities in access or quality of health care?

Original language description

Background: Previous studies have reported large socioeconomic inequalities in mortality from conditions amenable to medical intervention, but it is unclear whether these can be attributed to inequalities in access or quality of health care, or to confounding influences such as inequalities in background risk of diseases. We therefore studied whether inequalities in mortality from conditions amenable to medical intervention vary between countries in patterns which differ from those observed for other (non-amenable) causes of death. More specifically, we hypothesized that, as compared to non-amenable causes, inequalities in mortality from amenable causes are more strongly associated with inequalities in health care use and less strongly with inequalities in common risk factors for disease such as smoking. Methods: Cause-specific mortality data for people aged 30-74 years were obtained for 14 countries, and analysed by calculating age-standardized mortality rates and relative risks compa

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

FN - Epidemiology, infection diseases and clinical immunology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

ISSN

1471-2458

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11.5.2012

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000307244900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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