From healthmaps@attbi.com Wed Oct 30 09:30:28 2002 Received: from mailscan6.cac.washington.edu (mailscan6.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g9UHUOFD150422 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:30:25 -0800 Received: FROM mxu0.u.washington.edu BY mailscan6.cac.washington.edu ; Wed Oct 30 09:30:24 2002 -0800 Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mxu0.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id g9UHUHRf030376 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:30:17 -0800 Received: from harriet ([12.229.18.75]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20021030173017.HAKL24555.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@harriet> for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:30:17 +0000 From: "HealthMaps" To: "WAPHGIS" Subject: waphgis: deprivation index Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:30:18 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0006_01C27FF6.F644C6A0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Perlmx-Spam: Gauge=XIIIIIIII, Probability=18%, Report="MAILTO_LINK, TO_LOCALPART_EQ_REAL" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C27FF6.F644C6A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am interested in developing a "deprivation" index, something along the lines of one that is used in the UK, ( see http://www.avon.nhs.uk/phnet/PHinfo/understanding.htm#Deprivation ) but for US census data. Can anyone suggest recent bibliography on this topic? Clearly this is a research interest for sociologists, demographers and geographers, but I am not familiar with their literature in this area. Any ideas about development of a deprivation index with US Census data? Something similar to the UK site's could be made with recent census data, but has there been much use of such an index in public health? Pros/cons? Thanks, Richard E Hoskins PhD MPH Spatial Epidemiology Unit WA State Dept of Health 1102 Quince Street Olympia, WA 98504-7812 richard.hoskins@doh.wa.gov GMT -8 to join WAPHGIS: send email to listproc@u.washington.edu with the following request: subscribe WAPHGIS Your Name new on-line GIS, geography & health journal: http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/start.asp ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C27FF6.F644C6A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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