| Author/Editor | Artnik, Barbara | |
| Title | The evaluation of socioeconomic and geographical factors according to the causes of death in Slovenia | |
| Translated title | Povezanost družbeno-ekonomskih in geografskih dejavnikov z vzroki smrti v Sloveniji | |
| Type | monografija | |
| Place | Ljubljana | |
| Publisher | Faculty of medicine | |
| Publication year | 2006 | |
| Volume | str. 49 | |
| Language | eng | |
| Abstract | Background. Socioeconomic deprivation is known to represent direct risk to health and health risk is known to differ between groups of people Aim. To study biologieal (sex and age), socioeconomie (marital status, education, and mother tongue) and geographical (region) factors connected with causes of death, and lifespan (age at death, years-of-potential-life-lost and mortality rate) in Slovenia in the 1990s. Methods. Population-based cross-sectional study. Analysis focused on all deaths in the 2564 age group (N=14,816) in Slovenia in 1992, 1995 and 1998. Diagnoses of cause of death were linked to data on the deceased from the 1991 Census. Causes of death were classified into groups according to the ICD-10. Stratified contingency-table analyses were performed. Years of potential life lost (YPLL) was calculated on the basis of population life-tables stratified by region, and linearly modelled by the individual characteristics. Poisson regression was applied to test differences in mortality rate. Results. Men died younger across all socioeconomic strata than women (index of their excess mortality exceeds 200 for all the studied years) and from different prevailing causes (particularly at age below 45 from injuries; neoplasms dominated for women after age 35). For men, higher education was associated with fewer deaths due to digestive system and respiratory system diseases, while the least educated women died relatively frequently of circulatory diseases and seldom of neoplasms. Single people of both sexes died less frequently because of neoplasms. Marriage as compared to divorce reduced the mortality rate about 1.9 times for both sexes (P<0.001). Mortality rate of men and women decreased from unfinished elementary school to university degree about four-fold (P<0.001). Mortality rate among ethnie Slovenians was over twice lower than among ethnic minority members and immigrants (P<0.001). (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters) | |
| Descriptors | MORTALITY SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS LIFE EXPECTANCY CAUSE OF DEATH SOCIAL JUSTICE MODELS, STATISTICAL SEX FACTORS AGE FACTORS SLOVENIA |