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Hi Dick,

Marc Miringoff's  _The Social Health of the Nation_, Oxford University 
Press, 1999 provides a good example of a "deprivation index".   He 
issues an annual index of social health in the US from his Institute for 
Innovation in Social Policy at Fordham University in NYC.  Hope this helps.

Bruce Mesh
Bamaware Corp
Brooklyn, NY
bamaware@earthlink.net


HealthMaps wrote:

> 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
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> Olympia, WA 98504-7812
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