The Portuguese Version of the European Deprivation Index: An Instrument to Study Health Inequalities

Acta Médica Portuguesa
Ana Isabel RibeiroMaria Fatima de Pina

Abstract

Tackling socioeconomic health inequalities is a big public health challenge and ecological deprivation indexes are essential instruments to monitor and understand them. In Portugal, no standard ecological deprivation index exists, contrasting with other countries. We aimed to describe the construction of the Portuguese version of a transnational deprivation index, European Deprivation Index. The European Deprivation Index was developed under the Townsend theorization of deprivation. Using data from the European Union - Statistics on Income and Living Conditions Survey, we obtained an indicator of individual deprivation. This indicator became the gold-standard variable, based on what we selected the variables at aggregate level (census) to be included in the European Deprivation Index, a total of eight. The European Deprivation Index was produced for the smallest area unit possible (n = 16 094, mean/area = 643 inhabitants) and resulted from the weighted sum of the previous variables. It was then classified into quintiles. The first quintile (least deprived) comprised 20.9% national population and the fifth quintile (most deprived) 18.0%. The European Deprivation Index showed a clear geographic pattern - most deprived areas conce...Continue Reading

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Aug 16, 2017·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Elaine HoffimannAna Isabel Ribeiro
Feb 27, 2018·International Journal of Public Health·Ana Isabel RibeiroMaria de Fátima de Pina
Feb 23, 2018·Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology·Carina RodriguesUNKNOWN Portuguese EPICE (Effective Perinatal Intensive Care in Europe) Network
Apr 14, 2018·Zdravstveno Varstvo·Vesna ZadnikLudivine Launay
Jun 21, 2019·Scientific Reports·Ana Isabel RibeiroHenrique Barros
Sep 12, 2018·Health and Quality of Life Outcomes·Mariana AmorimSusana Silva
Dec 20, 2018·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Ana Isabel Ribeiro, Elaine Hoffimann
May 31, 2018·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Ana Isabel RibeiroSilvia Fraga
Jan 27, 2019·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Katarina LokarVesna Zadnik
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