Health and Place
Volume 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 440-444

Socio-demographic and health characteristics of individuals left behind in deprived and declining areas in Scotland (Article) (Open Access)

Brown D.* , O'Reilly D. , Gayle V. , MacIntyre S. , Benzeval M. , Leyland A.H.
  • a MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • b Epidemiology and Public Health, Centre for Clinical and Population Sciences, Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom
  • c School of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom
  • d MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • e MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • f MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

Deprived and declining areas in Scotland have poorer health than other areas in the rest of Scotland. Using data from the Scottish Longitudinal Study, this paper examines whether differential migration over a one year period can explain these differences. Compared with migrants to and from deprived and declining areas, stable residents in those areas were generally older, less well educated and less affluent. Continued disproportionate loss of more affluent and better educated individuals could result in deprived and declining areas becoming even more deprived over time. Migrants appeared to be in better health; however, this finding was reversed on adjustment for age. It may be that while the relationship between migration and socio-economic status is immediately apparent, the relationship between migration and health could take longer to develop. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.

Author Keywords

United Kingdom Health Scotland Socioeconomic factors Population change

Index Keywords

education immigrant longitudinal study demography poverty Population Dynamics human social aspect priority journal health status Aged socioeconomic status social status Adolescent male female socioeconomics socioeconomic impact Article adult migration Scotland age United Kingdom

Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84863398292&doi=10.1016%2fj.healthplace.2012.01.002&partnerID=40&md5=bbbbcd6cc91999e049e333215e58d3d6

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.01.002
ISSN: 13538292
Cited by: 6
Original Language: English