Neighbourhood income inequalities in mental health in Barcelona 2001-2016: a Bayesian smoothed estimate

• Main Authors: Xavier Bartoll-Roca (Author), Marc Marí-Dell'Olmo (Author), Mercè Gotsens (Author), Laia Palència (Author), Katherine Pérez (Author), Elia Díez (Author), Carme Borrell (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Obtaining reliable health estimates at the small area level (such as neighbourhoods) using survey data usually poses the problem of small sample sizes. To overcome this limitation, we explored smoothing techniques in order to estimate poor mental health prevalence at the neighbourhood lev...