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J Giggs

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PubMed1993

Schizophrenia in Nottingham: lifelong residential mobility of a cohort.

The lifetime geographical mobility of a group of 67 patients suffering from schizophrenia was investigated and related to the ecological structure of the city of Nottingham, where they first presented between 1978 and 1980. The study aimed to investigate the processes leading to a threefold rate of schizophrenia in the most socioeconomically deprived area of the city compared to the area of least deprivation. Results suggest that this skewed distribution begins early in the lives of the patients and is well established at least five years before initial contact with the psychiatric services.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1989

Class A drug users: prevalence and characteristics in greater Nottingham.

This paper reports on the prevalence of known Class A drug use in Greater Nottingham, a large urbanized area with a population of 472,285 in 1981. Use of a multi-agency enumeration technique identified only 170 users during 1985-86, giving an annual prevalence of 0.45 per 1000 of the adult population. The rates for opioid use and injected amphetamine use were 0.27 and 0.14 per 1000. Geographical analysis of the intra-urban residential distributions of the drug users identified statistically significant variations with the greatest concentrations occurring in the inner city residential areas, in neighbourhoods fringing major suburban shopping centres, and several council estates. Ecological analysis established statistically significant links between drug use and multiple deprivation, adult unemployment and crime.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1987

Elderly immigrants--a disadvantaged group?

Asian, Caribbean and British born Nottingham hospital discharge rates of people of pensionable age for a variety of diagnoses and elective surgery were compared. No evidence of under-utilization of services by immigrants was found, but marked excess discharges were observed for tuberculosis, diabetes, asthma, gastrointestinal bleeding and cataract surgery. Increased hospital use for most diagnoses probably reflects true differences in disease risk between immigrants and the indigenous population.

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