Assessment of the ecological bias of seven aggregate social deprivation indices

Abstract The phenomenon of social deprivation is highly diversified; hence there are a number of methods for measuring it. This article is a summary of a literature review concerning the methodology for calculating deprivation indices showing differences in research on deprivation. Reports, carried out on behalf of public administrations as well as academic articles from ten socially and economically developed countries, although diversified, were analysed. Partial indicators from the indices were classified into eight thematic groups representing different deprivation dimensions. A total of 166 partial indicators were analysed. Moreover, other methods of researching social crisis phenomena were discussed i.e. the indices employed by the UN and the USA. In the analysed countries, indicators of education and living conditions were considered most frequently while those relating to health and crime the least. The most common partial indicators are average levels of income, unemployment, overcrowding and education.

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Social Deprivation Indices of Patients on Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) in Grampian

Scottish Medical Journal ◽

10.1177/003693309303800504 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 38 (5) ◽

pp. 139-141 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

I H Khan ◽

J Cheng ◽

G.R.D. Catto ◽

N Edward ◽

A.M. MacLeod

Keyword(s):

Renal Replacement Therapy ◽

General Population ◽

Serum Creatinine ◽

Replacement Therapy ◽

Social Deprivation ◽

Information Services ◽

Health Board ◽

The Social ◽

Deprivation Indices

The social deprivation scores of 169 patients who resided in Grampian region and commenced renal replacement therapy (RRT) in Aberdeen during the period 1 January 1985–30 June 1991 were measured when their serum creatinine concentrations were first >=300 μmol/l, using the Jarman Underprivileged Area (UPA) and Carstairs indices. The numbers in the population of Grampian for each score were obtained from the Information Services team of Grampian Health Board based on the 1981 census. Comparison of the numbers of patients in each category of both Jarman and Carstairs indices showed no differences between the observed numbers of patients and the numbers in the general population. Thus in this study social deprivation occurred no more frequently in those commencing RRT than in the general population.

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Validation of a deprivation index for public health: a complex exercise illustrated by the Quebec index

Chronic Diseases and Injuries in Canada ◽

10.24095/hpcdp.34.1.03 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 12-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

R Pampalon ◽

D Hamel ◽

P Gamache ◽

A Simpson ◽

MD Philibert

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Construct Validity ◽

Social Deprivation ◽

Deprivation Index ◽

Complex Nature ◽

International Literature ◽

Factors Associated ◽

Validation Criteria ◽

Deprivation Indices ◽

Factual Data

Introduction Despite the widespread use of deprivation indices in public health, they are rarely explicitly or extensively validated, owing to the complex nature of the exercise. Methods Based on the proposals of British researchers, we sought to validate Quebec's material and social deprivation index using criteria of validity (content, criterion and construct validity), reliability and responsiveness, as well as other properties relevant to public health (comprehensibility, objectivity and practicality). Results We reviewed the international literature on deprivation indices, as well as publications and uses of the Quebec index, to which we added factual data. Conclusion Based on the review, it appears that the Quebec index responds favourably to the proposed validation criteria and properties. However, additional validations are required to better identify the contextual factors associated with the index.

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Social deprivation, housing density, and gregariousness in rats.

Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology ◽

10.1037/h0028742 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 70 (2, Pt.1) ◽

pp. 221-227 ◽

Cited By ~ 40

Author(s):

Bibb Latane ◽

Howard Cappell ◽

Virginia Joy

Keyword(s):

Social Deprivation ◽

Housing Density

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Deprivation Indices and Gastro-Oesophageal Cancers in Westmidlands (England) over 15 Years – A Study

Endoscopy ◽

10.1055/s-2004-825001 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 36 (05) ◽

Author(s):

S Dutta Roy ◽

A Jibawi ◽

D Corless ◽

M Deakin

Keyword(s):

Deprivation Indices

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Music Downtown Eastside

10.1093/oso/9780197535066.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Klisala Harrison

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Popular Music ◽

Social Deprivation ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Urban Neighborhoods ◽

Community Centers ◽

Human Capabilities ◽

Music Making ◽

Downtown Eastside ◽

Therapy Sessions

Music Downtown Eastside explores how human rights are at play in the popular music practices of homeless and street-involved people who feel that music is one of the rare things that cannot be taken away of them. It draws on two decades of ethnographic research in one of Canada’s poorest urban neighborhoods, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Klisala Harrison takes the reader into popular music jams and therapy sessions offered to the poorest of the poor in churches, community centers and health organizations. There she analyzes the capabilities music-making develops, and how human rights are respected, promoted, threatened, or violated in those musical moments. When doing so, she also offers new and detailed insights on the relationships between music and poverty, a type of social deprivation that diminishes people’s human capabilities and rights. The book contributes to the human rights literature by examining critically how human rights can be strengthened in cultural practices. Harrison’s study demonstrates that capabilities and human rights are interrelated. Developing capabilities can be a way to strengthen human rights.

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Charismatic, Pentecostal, and Evangelical Movements in Europe, the US, and Brazil

10.1093/oso/9780198801665.003.0018 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Detlef Pollack ◽

Gergely Rosta

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

Social Deprivation ◽

Religious Change ◽

Evangelical Protestantism ◽

Secularization Theory ◽

Explanatory Factors ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Healing Rituals ◽

The Us ◽

Latin American Countries

The growth of Evangelical Protestantism and Pentecostalism is widely regarded as a potent argument against the validity of secularization theory. To explain this growth, Chapter 12 draws on theoretical approaches to analysing new social movements, which allows an expansion of the repertoire of explanations concerning religious change and a testing of alternatives to the models provided by secularization theory. To explain the worldwide growth and relative resilience of the Evangelical and Pentecostal movements, the chapter identifies a number of conditions and explanatory factors: cultural and social confirmation, religious syncretism, social deprivation, and the widespread magical worldview and broadly accepted spiritistic beliefs in Latin American countries that are conducive to the acceptance of Pentecostal experiences and healing rituals.

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