Open AccessEstimating diabetes prevalence by small area in England
Author(s) -
Peter Congdon
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdi068
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , prevalence , ethnic group , epidemiology , public health , type 2 diabetes , social deprivation , population , diabetes mellitus , health survey for england , diabetic ketoacidosis , environmental health , nursing , sociology , economic growth , anthropology , economics , endocrinology
Diabetes risk is linked to both deprivation and ethnicity, and so prevalence will vary considerably between areas. Prevalence differences may partly account for geographic variation in health performance indicators for diabetes, which are based on age standardized hospitalization or operation rates. A positive correlation between prevalence and health outcomes indicates that the latter are not measuring only performance.
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