دورية أكاديمية
Socioeconomic status and birth weight: comparison of an area-based measure with the Registrar General's social class
| العنوان: | Socioeconomic status and birth weight: comparison of an area-based measure with the Registrar General's social class |
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| المصدر: | ftuwarwick |
| بيانات النشر: | BRITISH MED JOURNAL PUBL GROUP |
| سنة النشر: | 1999 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine, demo, envir |
| الوصف: | Objective-To compare the relation of birth weight with socioeconomic status measured by an area-based measure of material deprivation and by the Registrar General's social class. Setting-West Midlands Health Region 1991-93. Study design-Retrospective cohort study. Method-Birthweight data by enumeration district deciles ranked by Townsend Deprivation Index based on 1991 census data for all live births in the West Midlands Health Region were studied in three consecutive whole year birth cohorts, 1991 to 1993 and by Registrar General's social class in a 10% sample of live births (within marriage and jointly registered, provided by the Office of National Statistics) in the same region for the same period. Estimated proportions of births <2500 g and <3500 g "attributable" to social inequalities were compared for both socioeconomic status measures. The proportion of infants in each birthweight group were calculated for both measures. Relative risk (95% confidence intervals) of birth in each birthweight group for lowest versus highest socioeconomic status groups were calculated. Results-The estimated proportions of births < 2500 g "attributable" to social inequalities were 30% using the area-based measure and 27% using time Registrar General's social class. For births <3500 g, the estimated proportions were 12% for the area-based measure and 7% for social class. There was a positive linear relation between the proportion of babies weighing greater than or equal to 3500 g and increasing socioeconomic status measured by either method. Gradients in the opposite direction were noted for the proportion of babies born in the other birth weight groups. Relative risk of birth weight <3500 g was 1.30 (95% CIs 1.28, 1.32) for most versus least deprived decile and 1.17 (95% CIs 1.10, 1.25) for social class V versus I. For birth weight <2500 g the risks were 1.99 (95% CIs 1.85, 2.18) and 2.04 (95% CIs 1.53, 2.73) respectively and for birth weight <1500 g, 2.11(95% CIs 1.73, 2.57) for most versus least deprived ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper review |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| العلاقة: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/14330Test/ |
| الإتاحة: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/14330Test/ |
| حقوق: | undefined |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.98E021EB |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |