SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND HEALTH INEQUALITIES: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS

Authors : Alpaslan TÜRKKAN, Kayıhan PALA

Pages : 151-166

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Publication Date : 2021-11-22

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Health disparities between urban and rural areas in Turkey have not been fully known yet, which remained under-researched in the relevant literature. To investigate the distribution of health and its social determinants, including demographics, socio-economic characteristics, and behavioral factors in the rural and urban population, who live in Turkey. In this study, we used cross-sectional data, namely the Nilüfer Social Determinants of Health Survey 2014. The findings showed that 799 of the houses insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(79.3%); and 79.9% of the respondents insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(2481 people); were in the city. In this study, 20.1% of the respondents insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(n=624); were reported to live in 208 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(20.7%); of the houses that were located in the rural area. The socioeconomic indicators insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(education, employment status, household appliances, car ownership, household income, income status and money-saving); explored in this study were correlated with the health indicators insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p<0.01);. Socioeconomic indicators were strongly associated with health in both rural and urban area. The residential area was an important determinant of health. Our study, however, has revealed that socioeconomic factors are highly likely to determine the health status of people more than urban-rural settings. Thus, the higher the socioeconomic status is the better the health indicators are.
Keywords : Social Determinants of Health, Urban Health, Injuries, Cronic Disease, Socioeconomic Factors