Research Findings: Where people live: Descriptions of the Twenty-07 area Summary papers

Localities 10 years on

We first studied environmental characteristics of the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study Localities in 1987. We updated information about the demographic, service provision, collective social functioning and socio-economic characteristics of the localities in 1997, and compared these with data collected in 1987. It appears that the North West Locality continues to have better service provision, as in 1987, but that for some services the gap between the Localities has been slightly reduced (e.g. the number of shops per thousand residents). This reduction seemed to be due to improvements in the South West Locality rather than declining service provision in the North West.

Flint, J. (2001). The West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study. Health in the community: the two study localities in 1997. Glasgow, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit.

 

Provision of primary care services in a working class and middle class locality in Glasgow

For a long time, concern has been expressed about the provision of primary care services in deprived areas, or more specifically, in inner city areas that might, in part, explain some of the observed poorer health of people in socially deprived areas.  We explored data collected in 1987/8 from all three age cohorts from two social contrasting Twenty-07 Study localities, and found that people’s perceived accessibility to, and satisfaction with, GP practices was equally high in both the South West and North West areas of Glasgow despite the greater need for services and the higher use of services among people in the relatively deprived South West area.  Our findings support other studies which suggest that the stereotype of poorly resourced low quality primary care in inner city areas may apply in London, but not elsewhere.

Wyke, S., G. Campbell, et al. (1992). "The provision of primary care services in a working class and middle class locality in Glasgow." British Journal of General Practice 42: 271-275.