Ana Ayuso-Álvarez, Cristina Ortiz, Teresa López-Cuadrado, Carmen Rodríguez-Blázquez, Pablo Fernández-Navarro, Javier González-Palacios, Javier Damián, Iñaki Galán
{"title":"Rural-urban gradients and all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality in Spain using individual data.","authors":"Ana Ayuso-Álvarez, Cristina Ortiz, Teresa López-Cuadrado, Carmen Rodríguez-Blázquez, Pablo Fernández-Navarro, Javier González-Palacios, Javier Damián, Iñaki Galán","doi":"10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101232","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>•The literature reporting on rural-urban health status disparities remains inconclusive.•We analyzed data from a longitudinal population-based study using individual observations.•Our results show that the risks of all-cause and cancer mortality are greater in large cities than in other municipalities, with no clear urban-rural gradient.•Not differences were found among territories in cardiovascular mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":506314,"journal":{"name":"SSM - Population Health","volume":" ","pages":"101232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/6a/7f/main.PMC9516441.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SSM - Population Health","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101232","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2022/9/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
•The literature reporting on rural-urban health status disparities remains inconclusive.•We analyzed data from a longitudinal population-based study using individual observations.•Our results show that the risks of all-cause and cancer mortality are greater in large cities than in other municipalities, with no clear urban-rural gradient.•Not differences were found among territories in cardiovascular mortality.