title: Shrinking areas and mortality: an artefact of deprivation effects?
abstract: There is evidence that mortality rates are highest in areas that are experiencing population decline, and researchers have recommended that this should be accounted for in health resource allocation. This research finds a significant negative association between population change and mortality for small areas in Scotland, which remains when low social class is accounted for. However, this relation disappears when the area deprivation is accounted for. It is suggested that it is more important to account for deprivation than population change in health resource allocation.
authors.affiliation: School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9AL, UK. d.exeter@st-andrews.ac.uk
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Exeter
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Robin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Flowerdew
authors.forename: Paul J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Boyle
mesh_terms: D019352:Censuses; D003467:Cultural Deprivation; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009026:Mortality; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011204:Poverty Areas; D012606:Scotland / Q000453:epidemiology; D017062:Small-Area Analysis; D012923:Social Class