Neighbourhood unemployment and other socio-demographic predictors of emergency hospitalisation for infectious intestinal disease in England: A longitudinal ecological study.

Socially disadvantaged people tend to present to healthcare services more often, because they experience a greater burden of disease, 26 however in terms of IID, some UK-based evidence suggests that there may not be significant inequalities in IID incidence in the community. 9 This points to alternative explanations for the social gradients in emergency IID admission rates that have been observed – for example inequalities in disease severity.

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