Visualising regional inequalities in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic in England and Wales

Clare Bambra, Paul Norman and Niall Philip Alan Sean Johnson
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Clare Bambra: Population Health Sciences Institute, 5994Newcastle University, UK
Paul Norman: School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK
Niall Philip Alan Sean Johnson: 170526Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Australia

Environment and Planning A, 2021, vol. 53, issue 4, 607-611

Abstract: We examine regional inequalities in mortality from the 1918 pandemic in England and Wales. Crude mortality rates (per 100,000 for June 1918 to May 1919) from the Registrar General’s 1920 report were directly allocated to crude mortality rates for 306 administrative units. A custom GIS ShapeFile was constructed to map the rates first as a choropleth and then as a cartogram. The visualisations show a clear north-south divide in mortality in England with the northern areas and – to a lesser extent – the midlands and Wales having higher rates than the south. It also demonstrates an urban-rural divide with more sparsely populated areas – across both England and Wales – having lower rates.

Keywords: Health inequalities; health disparities; influenza; history; geography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/0308518X20969420

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