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      The Public Health Observatory Handbook of Health Inequalities Measurement
      Roy Carr-Hill, Paul Chalmers-Dixon, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
      Edited by Jennifer Lin, Visiting Research Fellow at the South East Public Health Observatory
      South East Public Health Observatory, Oxford UK, 2005 
      Website: http://www.sepho.org.uk/extras/rch_handbook.aspx 
      This new SEPHO handbook provides a comprehensive collection of material for those concerned to document and understand health inequalities.


     
       
     
      Table of Contents 
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      Front cover
      Title page 
      Table of Contents (full ToC including ToC for Tables)
      Preface
      Foreword
      Acknowledgements & Feedback

      SECTION 1 Introduction 
      1.1 Inequality and its Measurement
      1.2 This Handbook
      1.3 Core Issues Addressed by the Handbook
      1.4 Structure of This Handbook

      SECTION 2 Measuring Inequality by Social Categories
      2.1 Introduction
      2.2 The Proposed Categories
      2.3 Features of the Social Environment that Might Lead to Inequalities

      SECTION 3 Measuring Inequality by Health and Disease Categories (Using Data from Administrative Sources)
      3.1 Mortality Data
      3.2 Morbidity Data from Health Service Activity Statistics, Disease Registers and Similar Official Sources
      3.3 General Practice/Primary Care Data
      3.4 Acute Sector Data
      3.5 Community Health Sector Data

      SECTION 4 Measuring Inequality by Health and Disease Categories (Using Data from Surveys)
      4.1 Health and Lifestyle Surveys
      4.2 Regular Health and Lifestyle Surveys
      4.3 Health Status and Symptom Report Questionnaires

      SECTION 5 An Introduction to the Use of Indexes to Measure Deprivation 
      5.1 Background
      5.2 Selecting an Index of Deprivation
      5.3 The Properties of Deprivation Indexes
      5.4 Sources of Further Information – Reviews of Indexes and Their Properties
      5.5 Conclusion and Summary of Key Issues Concerning Indexes of Deprivation

      SECTION 6 A Selection of Indexes of Multiple Deprivation
      6.1 Indexes from Census or Administrative Data?
      6.2 Census-Based Indexes
      6.3 Indexes with a Majority of Non-Census Components
      6.4 Geo-Classification and Other Area Classification Systems

      SECTION 7 Indexes: Properties and Problems
      7.1 Introduction
      7.2 Measuring Disability and Limiting Illness with Indicators and Indexes
      7.3 Key Aspects of the Construction and Structure of Indexes
      7.4 Testing an Index
      7.5 The Purpose of Testing
      7.6 Matching the Index to the Application – Example of an Index for Policy Use
      7.7 Pitfalls and Problems of Using Indexes
      7.8 Conclusions

      SECTION 8 Data Sources: Availablity and Problems 
      8.1 Introduction
      8.2 The Area Base
      8.3 Major National Archives and Sources
      8.4 Data Sources on Specific Topics

      SECTION 9 Designing Surveys to Measure Inequality 
      9.1 Introduction
      9.2 Surveys and Their Limitations
      9.3 Assuming You Have Decided on a Survey
      9.4 Different Types of Survey
      9.5 Summary

      SECTION 10 Inequalities and Methods of Measurement
      10.1 Introduction
      10.2 Context
      10.3 Properties of Indexes and Measurements
      10.4 Approaches to Summarising Inequality
      10.5 Measuring Inequalities in Health Over Time
      10.6 Summary and Conclusions: Choosing between the Measures

      SECTION 11 Context, History and Theory
      11.1 Introduction
      11.2 Context
      11.3 The Principal Theoretical Frameworks for Approaching Inequalities
      11.4 Summary and Conclusions

      References

      Appendix to Section 9

      Index
     

 

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