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Spatialising health inequalities in Northern Ireland: A GIS based analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic status and respiratory disease.

Socioeconomic status (SES) is often seen to relate to health inequalities. Wilkinson (1997) found that mortality in developed countries is affected significantly by relative living standards within the population. Social position and material circumstances are said to influence both physiological effects of a lower standard of living and also the psychosocial condition of individuals.

December 16, 2019

Frequency of Moving Home in Northern Ireland.

The aim of the project is to shed light on how frequently people move home, and especially about the types of people who change address the most and also the least. This question is prompted by our recent research on England and Wales using the ONS Longitudinal Study to examine change of address between one census and the next, 1971-2011, which itself was prompted by observations of sharp declines in migration intensity in the USA and some other developed countries. This study found that a substantial proportion of LS members stay put between censuses and that this proportion has been increasing, up from 45% in 1971-81 to 55% in 2001-11. Unfortunately, this information cannot answer the question as to whether the total number of address changes has reduced, because it misses multiple moves between censuses, which might have increased in volume over the decades.

December 16, 2019

Ethnic and Immigrant Ill-health and Mortality and their Predictors in Northern Ireland.

The ethnic composition of the UK is changing and diversity is increasing. By 2011, 14% of the population in England and Wales defined themselves as Non-White. However, due to a scarcity of data, information on mortality for ethnic groups, an important population health indicator, is still not routinely collected. Numerous UK health studies found varying health outcomes by ethnic group and research into immigrant mortality also unearthed significant differences between groups.

December 16, 2019

Adopting the ‘life course’ approach to investigate migratory behaviour and patterns of segregation in Northern Ireland between 1974 and 2015.

This study will adopt the ‘life course’ approach as a theoretical and methodological framework to examine how demographically selective flows of internal migration by age, religion, social class, gender and health contributes to the process of segregation and desegregation between 1974 and 2015. Using the key components of the life course (cohorts, aging and time periods) as a framework the study will conduct the following investigations;

December 16, 2019

Deprivation, Social Mobility and Population Health and Mortality in Northern Ireland 1981 –2011. A life-course analysis of associations and trajectories between and within cohorts.

This project analyses associations between deprivation, occupational advancement (mobility), health and mental health over the human life course in Northern Ireland in the period from 1981 to 2011. The focus is on comparisons of pathways and long-term effects of material deprivation, employment deprivation and educational deprivation across and between age-cohorts and generations. The project will look at the occupational employment trajectories and health trajectories of young people as they grow older and of older people over their life-course. Comparisons of pathways within and between cohorts are highly likely to give invaluable insights into age- period- and cohort-effects, thus allowing for conclusions about deprivation effects within and between generations in Northern Ireland.

December 16, 2019

Assessing the impact of an ageing population and increasing levels of chronic illness and disability.

In Northern Ireland, as in other developed countries, life expectancy is increasing and the population is rapidly ageing. However, official figures show that people in Northern Ireland experience more years of ill health or disability than any other part of the UK. The interplay between longer life and health has introduced the ‘compression of morbidity’ concept of the postponement of chronic disease and disability until later years. However, research conducted on the interplay between disability, health and ageing is limited and achieving a greater understanding of the impact of both an increase in the number and proportion of older people in the population on health and on disability levels is important to inform future policy and the delivery of services.

December 16, 2019

Internet usage and residential moves: What do we know?

It is normally important to have accurate address information for statistical and health-screening purposes. However, internet-based methods (eg email) can be used as an alternative and they have the virtue of being ‘placeless’ (eg not tied to a fixed address or geographical location). This could be of value when people change address and become hard to contact if they do not update their address information in administrative data sources.

December 16, 2019

Multi-morbidity and Mortality in Northern Ireland: An investigation of the association between self-reported multiple health disorders and subsequently recorded mortality.

Multi-morbidity is becoming an increasingly pertinent public health issue and challenge, given advancement of research, policy and treatment and an ageing population. One of the consequences of increased life expectancy is increased risk of accumulation of multiple disorders, with the prevalence of multi-morbidity thought to be in excess of 65% of the elderly population (Banjaree, 2015). While multi-morbidity is more prevalent at older ages, in absolute terms over half of multi-morbid cases are aged under sixty-five. Despite multi-morbidity now being the norm for individuals with chronic diseases rather than the exception, existing health systems, clinical practice, guidance and training are dominated by single-disease approaches (Barnett et al., 2012).

December 16, 2019

Archives: Research

Spatialising health inequalities in Northern Ireland: A GIS based analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic status and respiratory disease.

Frequency of Moving Home in Northern Ireland.

Ethnic and Immigrant Ill-health and Mortality and their Predictors in Northern Ireland.

Adopting the ‘life course’ approach to investigate migratory behaviour and patterns of segregation in Northern Ireland between 1974 and 2015.

Deprivation, Social Mobility and Population Health and Mortality in Northern Ireland 1981 –2011. A life-course analysis of associations and trajectories between and within cohorts.

Assessing the impact of an ageing population and increasing levels of chronic illness and disability.

Internet usage and residential moves: What do we know?

Multi-morbidity and Mortality in Northern Ireland: An investigation of the association between self-reported multiple health disorders and subsequently recorded mortality.

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