There is an increasing recognition of the value of linked administrative data sets for applied demographic and health research. We use a prospective population-based cohort approach to take advantage of the 2006 Canadian Census data linked to 3 years of hospital records in order to investigate the social determinants of diabetes hospitalizations. We offer compelling evidence of the social gradient in health, with results highlighting decreasing risk of potentially avoidable hospitalization associated with increasing household income. We also found consistently higher risks of hospitalization and 6-month rehospitalization among persons of Aboriginal identity, after controlling for many individual and community-level factors.

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糖尿病潜在可避免住院风险的社会差异：关联人口普查和医院数据的分析

人们越来越认识到关联行政数据集对应用人口统计学和健康研究的价值。我们使用基于人群的前瞻性队列方法来利用与 3 年医院记录相关的 2006 年加拿大人口普查数据，以调查糖尿病住院的社会决定因素。我们提供了关于健康的社会梯度的令人信服的证据，结果强调了与家庭收入增加相关的潜在可避免住院的风险降低。我们还发现，在控制了许多个人和社区层面的因素后，土著人的住院和 6 个月再住院风险始终较高。