Research on health inequalities
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Brown, D., Allik, M. , Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (2014) Carstairs Scores for Scottish Postcode Sectors, Datazones and Output Areas from the 2011 Census. Technical Report. MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow.
Allik, M., Brown, D., Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (2016) Developing a new small-area measure of deprivation using 2001 and 2011 census data from Scotland. Health and Place, 39, pp. 122-130.
Allik, M. Brown, D., Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (under review) Differences in Ill Health and Health Inequalities among Ethnic Groups: Population Study using 2011 Scottish Census
Roughly 150 packages related to "public health", "health inequalities", "social epidemiology", "epidemiology", "demography", "mortality rate", "mortality".
Only four more closely related to this work: popEpi, epiR, Epi, epitools
Overlap: calculation of standardized rates, rate ratios and SE/CI for these
Differences: scope/flexibility of these functions, methods for SE/CI
Gap: not many tools specific to health inequalities research
rii(data, health, population, ses, age, ...)
Standardized rates (ESP 2013 default)
Linear regression: $y = \alpha + \beta x$
RII is SII divided by mean health
Weighted regression an option
x <- c(0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9) z <- c(0.16, 0.18, 0.2, 0.22, 0.24) #sum(z) x2 <-c(0, cumsum(as.numeric(z))[-length(z)]) + z/2 y <- c(150, 200, 270, 310, 400) plot(x, y, xlim = c(0, 1), ylim = c(0, 500), bty="n", col="blue", pch = 20, xlab="Population mid-points", ylab = "Mortality rate") abline(lm(y~x), col="blue") points(x2, y, col="red", pch=20) abline(lm(y~x2), col="red") text(0, 500, paste("RII = ", round(lm(y~x2)$coef[2], 1), " (population distribution: 16, 18, 20, 22, 24)", sep = ""), col="red", pos = 4) text(0, 450, paste("RII = ", round(lm(y~x)$coef[2], 1), " (population distribution: 20%)", sep = ""), col="blue", pos = 4)
Usually either not shown or based on S.E. from regression
Based on simulation
Google "R package SocEpi"
https://github.com/m-allik/SocEpi
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