Ethnic density and risk of mental ill health – The case of religious sectarianism in Northern Ireland: A population data linkage study
Authors:
- Tania J. Bosqui,
- Aideen Maguire,
- Anne Kouvonen,
- David Wright,
- Michael Donnelly,
- Dermot O’Reilly
Abstract
An ethnic group that lives in a neighbourhood in which it is in the minority, termed 'lower ethnic density,' tends to report a higher incidence of mental ill-health. This population-based study investigated for the first time the existence of an own-group density effect among Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland. The entire Northern Ireland born Catholic and Protestant working age (n = 1, 004,060) enumerated population in the 2011 Census of Northern Ireland were included in the study via administrative data-linkage methodology. Catholics had a greater likelihood of reporting mental ill health in neighbourhoods with the largest proportion of Catholics (OR = 1.25, 95%CI 1.07-1.47), whereas mental health among Protestants was not associated with neighbourhood proportion of Protestants, after adjusting for socio-economic status and neighbourhood deprivation. The results indicate that a complex relationship exists between group identity, population composition of ethnic and religious groups and prevalence of community mental health.
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- SWPS257ffbd55a1347c98f6de375cd7632fc
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- Journal series
- Health & Place, ISSN 1353-8292
- Issue year
- 2017
- Vol
- 47
- Pages
- 29-35
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.50
- Keywords in English
- Ethnicity; Mental health; Neighbourhood; Northern Ireland; Religion
- ASJC Classification
- ; ;
- DOI
- DOI:10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.06.010 opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28692955 opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
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- 23. Kouvonen_Bosqui et al. Health and Place 2017.pdf
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- Oświadczenie_publ_Anne Kouvonen_5 tekstów.pdf
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- 40
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