The Morbidity of One-Parent Families and Married Families in a General Practice in Inner City Birmingham

Morgan, David Ronald (1991) The Morbidity of One-Parent Families and Married Families in a General Practice in Inner City Birmingham. MD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

A prospective study was carried out in the author's practice at the Lee Bank Health Centre, Birmingham by the use of self and interviewer administered questionnaires and health diaries to test two hypotheses. Firstly, that in families registered and living in the Inner City of Birmingham the morbidity reported to the General Practitioners by mothers and children of one-parent families was greater than that reported by the mothers and children of married families ("reported morbidity"). Secondly, that there were greater numbers of occasions over a period of a month that one-parent mothers perceived themselves or their children to be ill than married mothers and their children ("unreported morbidity").

• Item Type: Thesis (MD)
• Qualification Level: Doctoral
• Keywords: Medicine, Epidemiology, Public health
• Date of Award: 1991
• Depositing User: Enlighten Team
• Unique ID: glathesis:1991-77079
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 14 Jan 2020 09:21
• Last Modified: 14 Jan 2020 09:21
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/77079