most women need fundamental support to function in their humane life. in terms of gender, in iran there are regional differentiations with regards to accessing benefits of development. the purpose of this paper is to describe the human development and development index in different regions and to study the relationship/ regression between levels of development and human poverty index on the bas...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relation between morbidity from injury and deprivation for different levels of injury severity and for different injury mechanisms for children aged 0-14 years. DESIGN Cross sectional survey of routinely collected hospital admission data for injury 1992-7. SETTING 862 electoral wards in Trent Region. SUBJECTS 21 587 injury related hospital admissions for childre...

Household businesses and small enterprises are a staple of villages in Thailand. In the late 1990s, Robert Townsend, an economic theorist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ventured into Thai villages to document household finances and sketch the ties linking family and village finances to regional and national economies. For the most part, economists had not delved into how these bu...

For the past 20 years, the New Zealand Deprivation Index (NZDep) has been the universal measure of area-based social circumstances for New Zealand (NZ) and often the key social determinant used in population health and social research. This paper presents the first theoretical and methodological shift in the measurement of area deprivation in New Zealand since the 1990s and describes the develo...

7 Biggeri M., Libanora R., Anich R., and Mariani S. (2006b), ‘Street children in Kampala: understanding capabilities deprivation through a participatory methods’, paper presented at the 5th Annual Conference of the HDCA, Aug.-Sept. 2006, University of Groningen. Gordon D., Nandy S., Pantazis C., Pemberton S. and Townsend P. (2003), Child Poverty in the Developing World, UNICEF, New York. Mehrot...

This note presents and discusses a number of properties a measure of individual deprivation should satisfy. The axioms we propose are necessary and sufficient to characterize Yitzhaki’s index of deprivation making the structure of the index more transparent.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

OBJECTIVE To assess how effectively a routine adjustment can be made for socio-economic confounding in small area studies of environment and health using indirect standardisation and small area deprivation indices, including analysis of the appropriate size of population unit on which to base the deprivation index and the importance of region and urban/rural status as axes of stratification. ...

OBJECTIVE To analyse critically the use of the Jarman underprivileged area index in health care planning and distribution of resources. DESIGN The original derivation of the score was examined and evidence to support criticisms of the use of underprivileged area scores examined. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Discrepancies between areas classified as deprived according to the index and areas known t...