Synopses & Reviews
This Handbook is the definitive resource for anyone wishing to quickly look up and understand key concepts and measurements relating to socioeconomic position and inequalities. A range of key concepts is defined and measures of socioeconomic position and inequality described. Alphabetical listings, cross-referencing, graphs and worked examples, references to web and other sources of further information, all contribute to making the Handbook both engaging and accessible for a wide audience.For students, academics and others involved in social science research it answers questions such as 'What's the official government measure of poverty?', 'What factors make up the Townsend Index of Deprivation?', 'What is a gini coefficient?' and 'I have to write a report on tackling inequalities in my area - what are the key issues I should consider before I begin?'. For practitioners, policy makers, journalists and others who must read, understand and use research in fields as diverse as health, criminology, education, the environment, transport and housing it provides a one-stop, authoritative guide to making sense of and evaluating the significance of often complex methodologies.
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It would be impossible to find a better overview in one volume...this handbook deserves a place in every pocket, briefcase and department wherever there is a need to complement passion and persuasion with method and measurement David Pencheon, Director, Eastern Region Public Health Observatory
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For those wanting an accurate but handy handbook for quickly understanding core issues and getting on with analyses or action, this new text will be of great use. J. Michael Oakes, International Journal of Epidemiology
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This book will certainly find wide use in the public health/social epidemiology/health inequalities community and, I suspect, will be one of the more well-thumbed books in their collections. Public Health
Synopsis
This book is the definitive resource for anyone wishing to quickly look up and understand key concepts and measurements relating to socio-economic position and inequalities. A range of key concepts is defined, and measures of socio-economic position and inequality described. Alphabetical listings, cross-referencing, graphs and worked examples, references to the web, and other sources of further information, all contribute to make The Handbook of Inequality and Socio-Economic Position both engaging and accessible for a wide audience. It provides a one-stop, authoritative guide to making sense of and evaluating the significance of often complex methodologies.
Synopsis
This handbook is the definitive resource for anyone wishing to quickly look up and understand key concepts and measurments relating to socioeconomic position and inequalities.
About the Author
Mary Shaw, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bruna Galobardes, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Debbie A. Lawlor, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, John Lynch, Sansom Insitute for Health Research, University of South Australia., Ben Wheeler, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield and George Davey Smith, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part one: Key concepts: Deprivation
Ethnicity
Health equity audits/profiles
Inequality/equality
Inequity/equity
Lay epidemiology
Life course socioeconomic position
Living standards
Official/vital statistics
Poverty
Psychosocial factors
Segregation
Social capital
Social class
Social exclusion
Social mobility
Social status
Social stratification
Status inconsistency
Wealth
Part two: Measures of socioeconomic position: Amenities
Benefit claimants
Breadline Britain and the Millennium Survey of Poverty and Social Exclusion
Cambridge Scale
Car access and ownership
Carstairs deprivation index
Child poverty: the official government measure
Deprivation indices
Education
Erikson and Goldthorpe class schema
Fuel poverty
Housing conditions
Housing status (including homelessness)
Housing tenure
Housing wealth
Income
Index of local conditions
Index of local deprivation (1998)
Indices of deprivation (2000)
Indices of deprivation (2004)
Jarman UPA index
Job (in)security
National Statistics Socioeconomic Classification (NS-SEC)
Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure
Occupation-based measures
Occupational Social Class - RGSC
Overcrowding
Poverty: the official government measure
Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004
Townsend Index of deprivation
Unemployment
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation
Part three: Measures of inequality: Absolute differences
Dissimilarity Index
Gini coefficient
Households below average income
Index of disparity
Measures of average disproportionality
Range
Relative concentration index
Relative index of inequality
Slope index of inequality
Standardised outcomes
Theil Index and Mean Log Deviation
Part four: Theoretical and methodological issues: Age-period cohort effects
Atomistic fallacy
Bar charts
Box and Whisker graphs
Cartogram
Choropleth map
Correlation coefficients
Ecological fallacy
Funnel plots
GIS
Incidence
Line graphs
Percentages
Populations
Prevalence
Proportional Mortality Ratio
Proportions
Scatterplots