Download ~ Issues in the Measurement of Social Determinants of Health. * by Health Information Management Journal ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Issues in the Measurement of Social Determinants of Health.
- Author : Health Information Management Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 211 KB
Description
Introduction This paper focuses on two key social determinants of health, as discussed by Wilkinson and Pickett (2006), namely, poverty and inequality. Within that context, the paper concentrates on two largely conceptual questions: (a) how poverty and inequality are best interpreted when seeking to assess their impact on health; and (b) what in turn this means for information requirements. First, issues surrounding public health information are examined, primarily from the perspective of health economics, but pertinent to other closely related fields. We then examine the social determinants of health, focusing in particular on poverty and inequality. The nature of the relationship between poverty and inequality on the one hand, and health on the other, is the subject of the final section. In conclusion, it is stressed that even if reliance still has to be placed on some crude proxies for public health information in measuring poverty and inequality (such as income), an understanding of the complexities of the underlying relationships between these measures and health means interpretation of results will tend to be better informed and more cautious.
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