Mortality socio-economic inequalities for small-areas in Belgium: Assessing concentration;Inegalites socio-economiques de la mortalite dans les communes Belges

Revue d'Epidemiologie et de Sante Publique

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 239-247

  Lorant, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Concentration index; Mortality; Prevention; Socio economic inequality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; AGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INCOME; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

AGE FACTORS; BELGIUM; CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMANS; INCOME; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0343953451     PISSN: 03987620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Organisation Mondiale de la Santé. Les buts de la santé pour tous : la politique de santé de l'Europe. Copenhague : OMS-Bureau Régionale de l'Europe, 1993.
2. Gouvernement du Québec et Ministère de la santé et des services sociaux. La politique de la santé et du bien-être. Montréal : Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux, 1992 : 1-192.
3. Haut Comité de la Santé Publique. La santé en France : rapport général. Paris : La documentation française, 1994.
4. National Center for Health Statistics. Healthy people 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives. Review 1995-96. Hyattsville, Maryland: Public Health Service, 1995: 1-208.
5. Bucher HC, Ragland DR. Socioeconomic indicators and mortality from coronary heart disease and cancer: A 22-year follow-up of middle-aged men. Am J Public Health 1995; 85: 1231-6.
6. Van Loon A, Van den Brandt P, Golbohm R. Socioeconomic status and colon cancer incidence: a prospective cohort study. Br J Cancer 1995; 71: 882-7.
7. Health Departments of Great Britain. General Practice in the National Health Service: 1990 contract. London: HMSO, 1990.
8. Carr-Hill R, Hardman G, Martin S et al. A Formula for Distributing NHS Revenues Based on Small Area Use of Hospital Beds. York: University of York, Center for Health Economics, 1994: 1-139.
9. Freimuth VS, Mettger W. Is there a hard-to-reach audience? Public Health Rep 1990; 105: 232-8.
10. Carstairs V. Deprivation indices: Their interpretation and use in relation to health. J Epidemiol Community Health 1995; 49: S3-S8.
11. Dolan SA, Jarman B, Bajekal M, Davies PM, Hart D. Measuring disadvantage: Changes in the underprivileged area, Townsend, and Carstairs scores 1981-91. J Epidemiol Community Health 1995; 49: S30-S33.
12. Pampalon R, Saucier A, Berthiaume N et al. The selection of needs indicators for regional resource allocation in the fields of health and social services in Quebec. Soc Sci Med 1996; 42: 909-22.
13. Folwell K. Single measures of deprivation. J Epidemiol Community Health 1995; 49 Suppl. 2: S51-S56.
14. Simonato L, Ballard T, Bellini P, Winkelmann R. Avoidable mortality in Europe 1955-1994: a plea for prevention. J Epidemiol Community Health 1998; 52. 624-30.
15. Ministère de la Communauté française and Direction Générale de la Santé. Programme quinquennal et législation de promotion de la santé de la Communauté française 1998 - 2003. Bruxelles : Ministère de la Communauté française, 1998 : 1-35.
16. US preventive Services Task Force. Guide to clinical preventive services. 2nd Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1996.
17. Gordon D. Census based deprivation indices: Their weighting and validation. J Epidemiol Community Health 1995; 49: S39-S44.
18. Shouls S, Congdon P, Curtis S. Modelling inequality in reported long term illness in the UK: combining individual and area characteristics. J Epidemiol Community Health 1996; 50: 366-76.
19. Kakwani N, Wagstaff A, Van Doorselaer E. Socioeconomic inequalities in health: measurement, computation and statistical inference. J Econometrics 1997; 77: 87-103.
20. Van Doorslaer E, Wagstaff A, Rutten F. Commission of the European Communities, ed. Equity in the Finance and Delivery of Health Care: an international perspective. Oxford: Oxford Medical Publications, 1993.
21. Wagstaff A, Paci P, Van Doorslaer E. On the measurement of inequalities in health Soc Sci Med 1991; 33: 545-57.
22. Van Doorslaer E, Wagstaff A, Bleichchrodt H et al. Income-related inequalities in health: Some international comparisons. J Health Economics 1997; 16: 93-112.
23. Jougla E, Pavillon G, Rossollin F, De Smedt M, Bonte J. Improvement of the quality and comparability of causes-of-death statistics inside the European Community. Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique 1998; 46: 447-56.
24. Gosset C. Aspects épidémiologiques du suicide. L'Observatoire 1994 ; 2 : 15-21.
25. DeHenauw S, deSmet P, Aelvoet W, Kornitzer M, DeBacker G. Misclassification of coronary heart disease in mortality statistics. Evidence from the WHO-MONICA Ghent-Charleroi Study in Belgium. J Epidemiol Community Health 1998; 52: 513-9.
26. Richardson S. Modélisation statistique des variations géographiques en épidémiologie. Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique 1992 ; 40 : 33-45.
27. Wong D. Aggregation effects in geo-referenced data. In: Arlinghaus S, L, ed. Practical Handbook of Spatial Statistics. New York: CRC Press, 1996: 83-105.
28. Jones K, Duncan C. Individuals and their ecologies: analysing the geography of chronic illness within a multilevel modelling framework. Health and Place 1995; 1: 27-40.
29. Kennedy BP, Kawachi I, Glass R, Prothrow-Stich D. Income distribution, socioeconomic status, and self rated health in the United States: multilevel analysis. Br Med J 1998; 317: 917-21.
30. Pampalon R. Avoidable mortality in Quebec and its regions. Soc Sci Med 1993; 37: 823-31.
31. Poikolainen K, Eskola J. Regional and social class variation in the relative risk of death from amenable causes in the city of Helsinki, 1980-1986. Int J Epidemiol 1995; 24: 114-8.
32. Westerling R, Gullberg A, Rosen M. Socioeconomic differences in 'avoidable' mortality in Sweden 1986-1990. Int J Epidemiol 1996; 25: 560-7.
33. Holland WW, ed. European Community Atlas of Avoidable Death. 2nd Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
34. Carr Hill RA, Hardman GF, Russell IT. Variations in avoidable mortality and variations in health care resources. Lancet 1987; 1: 789-92.
35. Westerling R. Components of small area variation in death rates: A method applied to data from Sweden. J Epidemiol Community Health 1995; 49: 214-21.