Open AccessDo socio-economic, behavioural and biological risk factors explain the poor health profile of the UK's sickest city?
Author(s) -
Rebecca Landy,
David Walsh,
Julie Ramsay
Publication year - 2012
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/fds020
Subject(s) - anxiety , medicine , overweight , odds , logistic regression , demography , mental health , odds ratio , public health , gerontology , environmental health , obesity , psychiatry , nursing , pathology , sociology
The extent to which the poor health profile of Glasgow, the city with the highest mortality rates in the UK, can be explained solely by socio-economic factors is unclear. This paper additionally considers behavioural and biological factors as explanations of excess risk.
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