Asthma, Deprivation and the Urban Environment in Scotland: Evidences, Challenges and Directions Shiraz Sheriff¹, Edward Hall¹, Thilo Kroll², University of Dundee, School of the Environment¹ and School of Nursing and Midwifery²
AIM To explore factors that play in shaping asthma prevalence in an urban deprived area and examine the current model of patient–general practice interaction with respect to Asthma
BACKGROUND 6% of the population in Scotland suffer from Asthma A total of 368,000 people are currently receiving treatment for Asthma
Health disparities exist in urban and rural areas with urban deprived neighbourhoods having a higher prevalence of Asthma
6% Asthma Prevalence
Prevalence
SECONDARY DATA SET ANALYSIS Collected between 2001 and 2006 as a part of a UK wide Asthma Audit for the QOF (Quality Outcomes Framework ) program of the NHS Variables analyzed -Demographic characteristics of the asthma population e.g. size of asthma register in each practice, location, deprivation status, crude prevalence rates across each practice at ward level 111 General Practices participated representing 11% of the total practices in Scotland
Deprivation
Dundee - Large Urban Area
People and Places; Neighborhood effects: Individual and Population Level. Compositional, Contextual and Collective Concepts Uri Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory