Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain: an ethnic and religious minority 150 years on.
Ethnic and religious minorities often suffer disadvantages both in socio-economic status and in health. Data from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 study suggest some differences in morbidity between those descended from Irish Catholic migrants of the great emigration from 1840 onwards and others. Ca...
| Publicado en: | Social Science & Medicine Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 3 - 15 |
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Elsevier Science
July 1997
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=513014926&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 513014926 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 02779536 SMD jtl: Social Science & Medicine issn: 02779536 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: July 1997 vid: 45 iid: 1 pid: 2410 pub: Elsevier Science artinfo: ui: 513014926 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00302-4 ppf: 3 ppct: 12 formats: tig: atl: Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain: an ethnic and religious minority 150 years on. aug: au: Abbotts, Joanne Williams, Rory Ford, Graeme su: Health status indicators Health & social status Ethnic differences sug: subj: Health status indicators Health & social status Ethnic differences keyword: Catholics -- Scotland -- Health and hygiene Sex differences ab: Ethnic and religious minorities often suffer disadvantages both in socio-economic status and in health. Data from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 study suggest some differences in morbidity between those descended from Irish Catholic migrants of the great emigration from 1840 onwards and others. Catholic religion of at least one parent or at birth is used here as a proxy measure to indicate Irish Catholic descent, on the basis of estimates of sensitivity and specificity in the local area. Higher proportions of “Catholics” are in manual social classes. Differences between “Catholics” and “non-Catholics” in one or mare age cohorts are observed for the following aspects of health and physical development: general and physical health (self-assessed health, number of symptoms, accidents), psychological distress (depression, anxiety, number of psychosomatic symptoms), impairments and disabilities (sight, hearing, wearing dentures, disability), and physical measures (height, waist-to-hip ratio, lung function). Furthermore, for all aspects except hearing, wearing dentures and number of psychosomatic symptoms, significant differences remain after accounting for sex and social class. For each measure where a difference is observed, it is those respondents with a Catholic parent or who were born Catholic who experience poorer health or physical development. This suggests that those of Irish Catholic descent are at some disadvantage compared with the rest of the population, with respect to health as well as social class, 150 years after the start of the main migration. Copyright 1997, Pergamon Press Ltd. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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