Open AccessNeighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation and Residential Instability
Author(s) -
Basile Chaix,
Maria Rosvall,
Juan Merlo
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/01.ede.0000249573.22856.9a
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , demography , hazard ratio , context (archaeology) , case fatality rate , medicine , incidence (geometry) , cohort , social deprivation , proportional hazards model , longitudinal study , disease , gerontology , confidence interval , epidemiology , population , geography , pathology , physics , archaeology , sociology , economic growth , optics , economics
Previous literature has shown that neighborhood socioeconomic position influences the risk of ischemic heart disease, but little is known about the mechanisms linking the residential context to ischemic heart disease incidence and mortality. We examined whether neighborhood socioeconomic position and neighborhood residential stability (as a determinant of social interaction patterns) have an influence on ischemic heart disease risk. Moreover, we investigated whether dissimilar contextual influences operate at different stages of the disease process, ie, on incidence, 1-day case-fatality, and long-term survival after acute myocardial infarction (MI).