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Urbanization and Non‐communicable disease mortality in Thailand: an ecological correlation study
Author(s) -
Angkurawara Chaisiri,
Wattanatchariya Nisit,
Doyle Pat,
Nitsch Dorothea
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
tropical medicine and international health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1365-3156
pISSN - 1360-2276
DOI - 10.1111/tmi.12038
Subject(s) - ecological study , urbanization , non communicable disease , communicable disease , environmental health , geography , population , ecology , disease , demography , socioeconomics , medicine , public health , biology , economics , nursing , pathology , sociology
Abstract This study provides strong evidence from an LMIC that urbanization is associated with mortality from three lifestyle‐associated diseases at an ecological level. Furthermore, our data suggest that both average household income and number of doctors per population are important factors to consider in ecological analyses of mortality.