Area deprivation and hepatitis C infection in Korea: a multilevel case-control study using the National Health Insurance Database.

Among area-level variables, for the ADI, the OR for HCV infection risk in areas with the highest level of deprivation showed an increasing trend from 1.17 times (aOR: 1.17, 95% CI 1.13 to 1.21) in 2005 to 1.33 times (aOR: 1.33, 95% CI 1.28 to 1.37) in 2020.

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Temporal changes in the components of the ADI showed that the proportion of the elderly population and single-person households continuously increased, whereas the proportions of low educational attainment, lower social class and substandard housing conditions showed a decreasing trend.

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