Should We Enhance the Commonly Used Deprivation Index for a Regional Context?
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Should we enhance the commonly used deprivation index for a regional context?
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Versions of deprivation indices have been increasingly used to monitor patterns and magnitudes of inequality in health. For policy-makers, it is of interest to assess whether they need to construct regionally tailored indices, or whether the existing indices perform sufficiently in detecting inequalities in their respective jurisdiction. Few studies have explored the benef...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Public Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0008-4263,1920-7476
DOI: 10.17269/cjph.104.3763