Assessment of the ecological bias of seven aggregate social deprivation indices
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- 作者：Josephine Bryere ; Carole Pornet ; Nane Copin ; Ludivine Launay…
- 关键词：Ecological social deprivation indices ; Social inequalities in health ; Aggregate ; level ; Individual ; level
- 刊名：BMC Public Health
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：501KB
- 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2458
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundIn aggregate studies, ecological indices are used to study the influence of socioeconomic status on health. Their main limitation is ecological bias. This study assesses the misclassification of individual socioeconomic status in seven ecological indices.