Income and economic exclusion: do they measure the same concept?
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Income and economic exclusion: do they measure the same concept?
INTRODUCTION In this paper, we create an index of economic exclusion based on validated questionnaires of economic hardship and material deprivation, and examine its association with health in Canada. The main study objective is to determine the extent to which income and this index of economic exclusion index are overlapping measurements of the same concept. METHODS We used the Canadian Hous...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Equity in Health
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1475-9276
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-11-4