US Based Indices of Area Level Deprivation : Results from Health Care for Communities  

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Eibner, Christine ; Sturm, Roland

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 2 (Jan. 2006), page 348-359.
Topik: health care; neighborhoods; community; deprivation; deprivation indices; USA

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.1 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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In this analysis we create census tract level indices of area deprivation for the US that parallel similar indices developed in britain, and we determinant whether these indices are related to physical and mental health outcomes. Data for the indices come from the 2000 census summary file tapes and the2001 zip code business patterns files. These indices are then linked by census tract random effects. We find that are level deprivation predicts poor mental and physical health outcomes, but different components of deprivation ahve different effects. When we measure deprivation using three factors scored that emerged from our analysis (rather than combining all measures of deprivation into a single index), we find that access to services has a more pronounced association with physical health, whereas racial composition and local language barriers are more strongly correlated with mental health. These findings suggest that grouping all variables into a single index may ask important heterogeneity in the ways in which are characteristics affect health outcomes.

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