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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear all,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Just a reminder about our seminar today at 4pm. Jade Hooper (University of Stirling) will be talking about dog-related injuries and their relation to social factors. Please, see
below the title and short abstract for her talk. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">This meeting will take place in the
<b><u><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Psychology Common Room</span></u></b>.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Exploring Social and Locality Variations of Dog Bites in Scotland Using Administrative Data Sources</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Jade Hooper (Speaker);<b>
</b>Prof. Paul Lambert; Prof. Hannah Buchanan-Smith; Dr. Tony Robertson</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Background</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Previous research has shown that hospital admissions for dog-bites are highest in the most deprived areas across England and Wales. In Scotland, thus far there has been no rigorous empirical investigation
into social inequalities in dog-related injuries. This study aims to address this gap through analysis of linked administrative health data from NHS24 calls, A&E and SMR01 records involving dog-related injuries linked to Scotland Census micro-data. Area-based
measures of social circumstance are considered through the SIMD, along with an exploration of novel, area-level characteristics including measures of local greenspace, average garden size and dog populations. Individual/household level measures of social circumstance
taken from the Scottish Census are used to compare the characteristics of individuals with health records involving dog-related injuries to a random sample of individuals not appearing in the health data sets.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Results</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">When looking at individual level records and during modelling at aggregate area level, SIMD was an important factor in all models. Whilst some variation was observed across the different types
of health data, the number of records, incident risk ratios and odds ratios were all consistently at least 2-3 higher when comparing the most to least deprived areas. Accounting for dog populations and introducing interaction terms for SIMD decile by dog population
increased the main effect of SIMD. When comparing individual/household level measures of social circumstance taken from the Scottish Census, occupation-based measures such as NS-SEC and CAMSIS appeared to be relatively important predictors of risk, alongside
household composition and age, with children disproportionately represented. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Conclusion</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Incident rates of dog-related injuries were higher in more deprived areas and circumstances where individuals may be seen as more socially disadvantaged at the individual or household level. Social/legal
policies related to dog-bites typically don’t consider social disadvantage in any meaningful way. These results show the importance of doing so.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Gema</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="gray" size="2">The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159<br>
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