Carr-Hill, Roy
The Public health observatory handbook of health inequalities measurement [M]. -- Oxford : South East Public Health Observatory, 2005

Inequality and its Measurement -- This Handbook -- Core Issues Addressed by the Handbook -- Structure of This Handbook -- Measuring inequality by social categories -- The Proposed Categories -- Features of the Social Environment that Might Lead to Inequalities -- Measuring inequality by health and disease categories (using data from administrative sources) -- Mortality Data -- Morbidity Data from Health Service Activity Statistics, Disease Registers and Similar Official Sources -- Summary of Data Sources -- General Practice/Primary Care Data -- Acute Sector Data -- Community Health Sector Data -- Measuring inequality by health and disease categories (using data from surveys) -- Health and Lifestyle Surveys -- Regular Health and Lifestyle Surveys -- Health Status and Symptom Report Questionnaires -- An introduction to the use of indexes to measure deprivation -- Background -- Selecting an Index of Deprivation -- The Properties of Deprivation Indexes -- Sources of Further Information -- Reviews of Indexes and Their Properties -- Conclusion and Summary of Key Issues Concerning Indexes of Deprivation -- A selection of indexes of multiple deprivation -- Indexes from Census or Administrative Data? -- Census-Based Indexes -- Indexes with a Majority of Non-Census Components -- Geo-Classification and Other Area Classification Systems -- Indexes: properties and problems -- Measuring Disability and Limiting Illness with Indicators and Indexes -- Key Aspects of the Construction and Structure of Indexes -- Testing an Index --The Purpose of Testing Matching the Index to the Application -- Example of an Index for Policy Use -- Pitfalls and Problems of Using Indexes -- Difficulties in Using an Indicator May be a Pointer to Design Problems -- The Indicator Becomes the Reality -- What does a 'quality of life' index mean? -- Conclusions -- Data sources: availability and problems -- The Area Base -- The Desired Base is not Always Available -- Postcode to Area Translation -- Major National Archives and Sources -- Data Sources on Specific Topics -- Designing surveys to measure inequality -- Surveys and Their Limitations -- Assuming You Have Decided on a Survey -- Different Types of Survey -- Summary -- Section 10 inequalities and methods of measurement -- Context -- Properties of Indexes and Measurements -- Approaches to Summarising Inequality -- Simple Inequality Measures -- More Complicated Measures -- Measuring Inequalities in Health Over Time -- Summary and Conclusions: Choosing between the Measures -- Context, history and theory -- Context -- The Principal Theoretical Frameworks for Approaching Inequalities -- Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Index -- List of tables
ISBN: 0954297121

1. SALUD; 2. ACCESO A LA SALUD; 3. ENFERMEDADES; 4. ESTADÍSTICAS DE SALUD; 5. MANUALES; 6. MÉTODO ESTADÍSTICO; 7. MORBILIDAD; 8. MORTALIDAD; 9. POLÍTICA DE SALUD; 10. DESIGUALDAD SOCIAL; 11. MEDICIÓN I. Chalmers-Dixon, Paul II. Lin, Jennifer

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