Construcción de un índice de privación a partir de datos censales en grandes ciudades españolas (Proyecto MEDEA)

Abstract

The deprivation index proposed could be a useful instrument for health planning as it detects small areas of large cities with unfavorable socioeconomic characteristics and is associated with mortality. This index could contribute to the study of social inequalities in health in Spain.

Sociodemographic characteristics and chronic medical conditions as risk factors for herpes zoster

“…This deprivation index includes 5 indicators, related to work (unemployment, manual, and casual workers) and education (insufficient education, considered overall and in young people). 57 The corresponding quartile of the deprivation index was assigned to each health center and, by extension, to the patients assisted in it.…”

Effects of deprivation on the geographical variability of larynx cancer incidence in men, Girona (Spain) 1994–2004

“…The index was built according to the protocol established in the MEDEA project [16], by extracting a single axis from a set of selected indicators, by means of principal components. The saturations obtained in the extraction were used to assess the contribution of each indicator to the deprivation index [17,18].…”

“…The selected socioeconomic indicators [16] covered two aspects: indicators related to occupation and/or the labour market, and those referring to educational aspects.…”

“…In particular, four socioeconomic indicators were constructed using variables available in the census: (i) manual workers [19] recorded the percentage of employed workers in the building sector, in farming, among support personnel, and skilled and unskilled workers for each census tract; (ii) unemployment recorded the percentage of unemployed among active workers (above the age of 16) for each census tract; (iii) temporary employment [16] recorded the percentage of employed workers in temporary employment for each census tract; and (iv) insufficient education [20] recorded the percentage of men without studies and with incomplete primary education among all males above the age of 10 for each census tract.…”

El análisis de la desigualdad urbana. Propuesta y validación de un índice de nivel socio-económico en áreas urbanas españolas (1991-2001)

“…En las ilustraciones siguientes se muestra la distribución del INSE para la misma fecha en las secciones censales de Barcelona, Sevilla y Madrid. Básica-mente, el indicador refleja diferencias conocidas en estas ciudades (Domínguez-Berjón et al, 2008;Leal y Sorando, 2013;. En el caso de Barcelona, por ejemplo, puede apreciarse la diferencia entre la zona central y oeste de la ciudad, con la periferia de la zona norte y sur, similar al análisis de la privación material realizada por Álvarez del Arco et al (2013).…”