IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/socmed/v52y2001i12p1879-1887.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Social inequalities in ischaemic heart and cerebrovascular disease mortality in men: Spain and France, 1980-1982 and 1988-1990

Author

Listed:
  • Lostao, Lourdes
  • Regidor, Enrique
  • Aïach, Pierre
  • Domínguez, Vicente

Abstract

In this study we analyse the trend in socio-economic differences in mortality from ischaemic heart and cerebrovascular diseases in the economically active male population aged 25-64 years in Spain and France. The data used were taken from deaths from these two causes in 1980-1982 and 1988-1990; in the case of Spain the data came from the Eight Provinces Study. Individuals were grouped into four categories -- professional/managerial, clerical/sales/service workers, farmers, and manual workers -- and the mortality rate ratio was estimated with reference to the professional/managerial group. For ischaemic heart disease in 1980-1982, professionals and managers aged 25-44 years had the lowest risk of mortality in Spain, and the highest risk of mortality in France; in 1988-1990 the socio-economic differences in mortality in Spain increased, whereas the relation was inverted in France. In 1980-1982, professionals and managers aged 45-64 years had higher mortality from ischaemic heart disease than the other occupational groups in both countries; in 1988-1990 this relation was inverted, except in the case of clerical/sales/service workers in Spain. For cerebrovascular disease, manual workers experienced the highest mortality in the 25-44 year age group in 1980-1982, and the differences increased in 1988-1990 in all groups with respect to professionals and managers in both places. Professionals and managers in France and manual workers in Spain had the highest mortality between 45 and 64 years in 1980-1982; in contrast, in 1988-1990 professionals and managers had the lowest risk of mortality from this disease in both Spain and France, although in Spain the magnitude was similar to that of clerical/sales/service workers. In general terms, mortality from each disease was different in professionals and managers than in clerical/sales/service workers. Thus, the pattern of mortality and its evolution in different socio-economic groups cannot be analysed accurately when the two occupational groups are combined in a single large group of non-manual workers.

Suggested Citation

  • Lostao, Lourdes & Regidor, Enrique & Aïach, Pierre & Domínguez, Vicente, 2001. "Social inequalities in ischaemic heart and cerebrovascular disease mortality in men: Spain and France, 1980-1982 and 1988-1990," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 52(12), pages 1879-1887, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:52:y:2001:i:12:p:1879-1887
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277-9536(00)00304-X
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. TCHICAYA Anastase & LORENTZ Nathalie, 2011. "Disparités sociales de mortalité au Luxembourg," LISER Working Paper Series 2011-37, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:52:y:2001:i:12:p:1879-1887. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/315/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.