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- Title
Socioeconomic Disparities in Neurodegenerative Disease Mortality: A Population-Based Study among Belgian Men and Women Aged 65 or Older.
- Authors
Dinneweth, Janna; Gadeyne, Sylvie
- Abstract
This study investigates the association between socioeconomic position (SEP) – in terms of income and education – and mortality from neurodegenerative diseases, that is, dementia, parkinsonism, and motor neuron diseases (MNDs). We calculated age-standardized mortality rates and mortality rate ratios using log linear Poisson regression for different SEP groups, stratified by gender, age-group, and care home residency, utilizing the 2011 Belgian census linked to register data on cause-specific mortality for 2011 to 2016. Mortality was significantly higher in the lowest educational- and income groups. The largest disparities were found in dementia mortality. Income had a strong negative effect on parkinsonism mortality, education a positive effect. We found no significant association between SEP and MND. Our study provides evidence supporting the presence of socioeconomic disparities in mortality due to neurodegeneration. We found a strong negative association between SEP and NDD mortality, which varies between NDD, gender and care home residency.
- Subjects
BELGIUM; MORTALITY prevention; HEALTH services accessibility; RESEARCH funding; DATA analysis; SOCIOECONOMIC disparities in health; NEURODEGENERATION; AGE distribution; SOCIAL status; PARKINSONIAN disorders; STATISTICS; DEMENTIA; DATA analysis software; CONFIDENCE intervals; COMPARATIVE studies; REGRESSION analysis; MOTOR neuron diseases; EDUCATIONAL attainment; OLD age
- Publication
Inquiry (00469580), 2024, p1
- ISSN
0046-9580
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00469580241237113