Citation

Congdon P. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019; 16(10): e16101831.

Affiliation

School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, UK. p.congdon@qmul.ac.uk.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/ijerph16101831

PMID

31126097

Abstract

There are increasing concerns regarding upward trends in drug-related deaths in a number of developed societies. In some countries, these have been paralleled by upward trends in suicide. Of frequent concern to public health policy are local variations in these outcomes, and the factors underlying them. In this paper, we consider the geographic pattern of drug-related deaths and suicide for 2012-2016 across 6791 small areas in England. The aim is to establish the extent of commonalities in area risk factors between the two outcomes, with a particular focus on impacts of deprivation, fragmentation and rurality.

Language: en

Keywords

deprivation; drug-related deaths; rurality; small areas; social fragmentation; suicides