Exploring the potential for a new measure of socioeconomic deprivation status to monitor health inequality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Monitoring health inequalities is an important task for health research and policy, to uncover who is being left behind - and where - and to inform effective and equitable policies and programmes to tackle existing inequities. The choice of which measure to use to monitor and analyse health inequalities is thereby not trivial. This article explores a new measure of socioeconomic deprivation status (SDS) to monitor health inequalities.

Methods

The SDS measure was constructed using the Alkire-Foster method. It includes eight indicators across two equally weighted dimensions (education and living standards) and specifies a four-level gradient of socioeconomic deprivation at the household-level. We conducted four exercises to examine the value-added of the proposed SD

SUBMITTER: Dirksen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9034442 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature