BACKGROUND Despite rising levels of obesity in England, little is known about slimming club and weight loss drug (medication) use or users. In order to inform future commissioning, we report the prevalence of various weight management strategies and examine the associations between slimming club and medication use and age, gender, deprivation and body mass index. METHODS A population based cr...

The visual fields of 16 cats raised with monocular eyelid suture were measured by means of a visual orienting test. We separately measured the fields of nondeprived and deprived eyes. Each cat was tested preoperatively, and 13 of the cats were tested following lesions of the visual cortex, superior colliculus, and/or optic chiasm. Preoperatively with the nondeprived eye, every cat had a normal ...

OBJECTIVE To compare proportions of low birthweight babies and mean heights of schoolchildren between rural and urban areas at different levels of social deprivation. DESIGN Cross sectional population based study classifying cases by Townsend material deprivation index of enumeration district of residence and by rural areas, small towns, and large towns. SETTING Northumberland Health Distri...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between the spatial concentration of deprived households and teenage non-marital childbearing. Associations with area deprivation are tested before and after allowing for levels of personal deprivation. DESIGN AND SETTING The individual data are derived from the 2% sample of anonymised records (SAR) from the census of 1991 in Great Britain, and a...

Urban joblessness and inner city deprivation are a feature of the late twentieth century throughout the developed world. This paper considers the effectiveness of spatiallytargeted programmes in creating employment in deprived urban areas. It begins by discussing the twin themes of “enterprise” and “localism” which have dominated the UK policy response to urban problems in the 1990s and goes on...

BACKGROUND There are large variations in mental health prescribing in UK populations. However the underlying reasons for these differences, which may be related to differences in prevalence, cultural expectations or practical difficulties in access to treatment, remain uncertain. METHODS Linear modelling was used to investigate whether population characteristics or access to primary care acco...

In a cross sectional sample of 655 Glasgow babies the mean birthweight, after adjusting for other factors, of those with unemployed fathers was 150 g less (P less than 0.02) than for babies whose fathers were employed. A longitudinal study of 107 babies from 2 contrasting areas in Glasgow one of which was a socially deprived area was carried out concurrently. The deficit in length of 2.6% for i...

Article points 1. Diabetes has been shown to be more prevalent in areas of socioeconomic deprivation and deprivation impacts on health-seeking behaviours and utilisation of services. 2. Qualitative data from focus groups of people from minority ethnic groups in a deprived London borough indicate that poor health literacy, socioeconomic deprivation and organisation barriers impact on their abili...

Childhood mortality from injuries is known to be higher in children from deprived backgrounds, but the picture for non-fatal injuries is less clear. Fractures provide a measure of injury rates that is independent of distance from accident and emergency departments. Lyons et al found no difference in fracture rates in children from deprived and affluent areas. This, however, contradicts our anec...