A decade of socioeconomic inequality in type 2 diabetes area-level prevalence: an unshakeable status quo?

It is well known that there is a socioeconomic gradient in the prevalence of many chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes (T2DM). We present a simple assessment of the macro-level association between area socioeconomic disadvantage and the area-level prevalence of T2DM in Danish municipalities a...

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Published inScandinavian journal of public health Vol. 51; no. 2; p. 268
Main Authors Tapager, Ina, Bender, Anne Mette, Andersen, Ingelise
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Sweden 01.03.2023
Subjects
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Health Status Disparities
Humans
Prevalence
Scandinavian and Nordic Countries
Socioeconomic Factors
Scandinavian and Nordic Countries
Denmark
geographical inequalities
monitoring
slope index of inequality
Health inequality
diabetes
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Summary:It is well known that there is a socioeconomic gradient in the prevalence of many chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes (T2DM). We present a simple assessment of the macro-level association between area socioeconomic disadvantage and the area-level prevalence of T2DM in Danish municipalities and the development in this relationship over the last decade. We used readily available public data on the socioeconomic composition of municipalities and T2DM prevalence to illustrate this association and report the absolute and relative summary measures of socioeconomic inequality over the time period 2008-2018. The results show a persistent relationship between municipality socioeconomic disadvantage and T2DM prevalence across all analyses, with a modelled gap in T2DM prevalence between the most and least disadvantaged municipalities, the slope index of inequality, of 1.23 [0.97;1.49] in 2018.
ISSN:1651-1905
DOI:10.1177/14034948211062308