Dealing with spatial misalignment to model the relationship between deprivation and life expectancy: a model-based geostatistical approach.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND : Life expectancy at birth (LEB), one of the main indicators of human longevity, has often been used to characterise the health status of a population. Understanding its relationships with the deprivation is key to develop policies and evaluate interventions that are aimed at reducing health inequalities. However, methodological challenges in the analysis of LEB data arise from the fact that different Government agencies often provide spatially aggregated information on LEB and the index of multiple deprivation (IMD) at different spatial scales. Our objective is to develop a geostatistical framework that, unlike existing methods of inference, allows to carry out spatially continuous prediction while dealing with spatial misalignment of the areal-level data. METHODS : We develope

SUBMITTER: Johnson O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7057663 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature