Health inequalities among rural and urban inhabitants of Łódź Province, Poland.

Irena Maniecka‐Bryła · Małgorzata Pikala · Marek Bryła

15 citations0/0 files storedPubMed

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Health disparities and outcomes Public Health and Social Inequalities Healthcare Systems and Public Health

Abstract

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to compare the state of health of the inhabitants of the countryside and city dwellers in the Łódź province, measured with the real and standardized death rate and years of life lost, as well as the analysis of causes of deaths distinguishing these two populations. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study material included a database containing information gathered from 313,144 death certificates of the inhabitants of Łódź province who died between 1999-2008. Real and standardized death rates were determined. The standardization was carried out by a direct method. The Standard Expected Years of Life Lost (SEYLL method) was used to compute years of life lost. Analysis of time trends of death rates and life span in the Łódź province was conducted with jointpoint models. The intensity of mortality computed with standardized death rates in the province was higher in the countryside than in the city. RESULTS: In 2008, the standardized death rate in the countryside was 904.5 per 100,000 inhabitants, and in the city - 903.4 per 100,000 inhabitants. Inhabitants of the countryside more often died of cardiovascular diseases (SDR=418.7 vs. 367.9) and from external causes (SDR=90.2 vs. 63); those from the city and towns died from malignant neoplasms (SDR=204.5 vs. 195.6) and diseases of the alimentary tract (SDR=55.6 vs. 34.6). In 2008, SEYLL calculation for 1,000 people was 204 years for the inhabitants of the city and towns and 190 years for the inhabitants of the countryside. CONCLUSION: It is necessary to introduce more effective prophylactic and health promoting activities in order to lessen the differences in the state of health state in the Łódź province and the rest of the country.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 15 citations exist upstream.

References

2008Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in 22 European Countries 2005Mortality prediction with a single general self-rated health question 1992The Concepts and Principles of Equity and Health 2008Inequalities in healthy life years in the 25 countries of the European Union in 2005: a cross-national meta-regression analysis 2000Socioeconomic factors, material inequalities, and perceived control in self-rated health: cross-sectional data from seven post-communist countries 2006Determinants of cardiovascular disease and other non-communicable diseases in Central and Eastern Europe: Rationale and design of the HAPIEE study 1996Explaining urban-rural variations in health: A review of interactions between individual and environment 2008Educational inequalities in mortality in four Eastern European countries: divergence in trends during the post-communist transition from 1990 to 2000

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.