Small-area socioeconomic deprivation indices in Cyprus: development and association with premature mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Area-level measures of socioeconomic deprivation are important for understanding and describing health inequalities. The aim of this study was the development and validation of a small-area index of socioeconomic deprivation for Cypriot communities and the investigation of its association with the spatial distribution of all-cause premature adult mortality.

Methods

Six area-level socioeconomic indicators were used from the 2011 national population census (low educational attainment, unemployment, not owner occupied household, single-person household, divorced or widowed and single-parent households). After normalization and standardization of the geographically smoothed indicators, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to construct indicator weights. The ass

SUBMITTER: Lamnisos D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6532164 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature