Improving our understanding of the social determinants of mental health: a data linkage study of mental health records and the 2011 UK census

Objectives To address the lack of individual-level socioeconomic information in electronic healthcare records, we linked the 2011 census of England and Wales to patient records from a large mental healthcare provider. This paper describes the linkage process and methods for mitigating bias due to no...

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Main Authors: Robert Stewart, Amelia Jewell, Matthew Hotopf, Jayati Das-Munshi, Megan Pritchard, Craig Morgan, Natasha Chilman, Michael Dewey, Lukasz Cybulski, Rosanna Hildersley, Rachel Huck, Milena Wuerth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2024-01-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1/e073582.full