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

• Main Authors: Jakob Dirksen (Author), Monica Pinilla-Roncancio (Author), Fernando C. Wehrmeister (Author), Leonardo Z. Ferreira (Author), Luis Paulo Vidaletti (Author), Katherine Kirkby (Author), Theadora Swift Koller (Author), Anne Schlotheuber (Author), Heriberto Tapia (Author), Cecilia Vidal Fuertes (Author), Sabina Alkire (Author), Aluisio J. D. Barros (Author), Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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 ana...