Use of deprivation indices in small area studies.

Use of deprivation indices in small area studies.

Small-area Studies of Environment and Health in Italy: Accounting for Socioeconomic Deprivation

Background and Aims: Data for small-area studies in Italy are available at census tract and municipality level. The aim of the present contribution is to ascertain whether an ad hoc developed Deprivation Index (DI) can adjust for deprivation in SENTIERI, a multicentric small-area study at municipality level in Italian Polluted Sites – IPS. Methods: The DI adopted in SENTIERI is based on four so...

Deprivation indices: their interpretation and use in relation to health.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the use of deprivation indices in relation to health. DESIGN This paper reviews selected publications which illustrate the diversity of use of deprivation indices in the past decade. Most of this work is based in the major routine databases which exist in this country: the census, population, mortality, cancer register, and health service records all now incorporate...

Do inaccuracies in small area deprivation analyses matter?

OBJECTIVE To assess the accuracy of computerised matching of postcode to enumeration district (ED) and to determine whether any mismatching reduces the validity of methods to distinguish socioeconomic differences in "small area" deprivation studies. DESIGN Computerised and manual matching of postcodes to EDs were compared and the census based Townsend deprivation score was compared with socio...

Small-area deprivation measure datasets for Scotland, 2001 and 2011

These data present a new small-area deprivation measure, but also include a variety of other indicators, such as the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) and the Carstairs score. The data are for Scottish 2001 Datazones and for the years 2001 and 2011. In addition the data provide standardised self-reported measures of general health and limiting long-term illness. The theoretical back...