Geographic and statistic stability of deprivation aggregated measures at different spatial units in health research

摘要

Deprivation indices constitute a valuable tool for assessing health inequalities. A key issue when analyzing deprivation is the choice of the geographical scale and spatial unit of analysis. Our objective was to evaluate statistical and geographical stability of an Area Based Deprivation Index (ABDI) computed at different spatial scales and to study their relation with cardiovascular disease.