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Selective migration, health and deprivation: a longitudinal analysis.
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Overall it is found that between 1971 and 1991, inequalities in health increased between the least and most deprived areas, compared with the health-deprivation relationship which would have existed if peoples' locations and deprivation patterns had stayed geographically constant.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2005-06-01. It has received 308 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population.read more
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How do objective and subjective assessments of neighbourhood influence social and physical functioning in older age? Findings from a British survey of ageing.
Ann Bowling,Mai Stafford +1 more
TL;DR: Investigating associations between type of area, individuals' perceptions of their neighbourhoods, and indicators of social and physical functioning indicated that respondents who lived in affluent areas were less likely to have low levels of social activity independently of individual demographic and socio-economic characteristics.
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Poverty, wealth and place in Britain, 1968 to 2005
Eldin Fahmy,Danny Dorling,Jan Rigby,Ben Wheeler,Dimitris Ballas,Bethan Thomas,Dave Gordon,Ruth Lupton +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend concepts of social exclusion to establish five household groups: the exclusive wealthy, those who are able to exclude themselves from the norms of society; the rich but not exclusively so; the neither rich nor poor; the breadline poor; and the core poor, who experience a combination of severe income poverty, material deprivation and subjective poverty.
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Neighborhoods and disability in later life.
TL;DR: Findings underscore the need for attention in the design and evaluation of disability-prevention efforts to the benefits that accrue from more physically connected communities and to the potential harm that may arise in later life from living in economically disadvantaged areas.
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The strange geography of health inequalities
Susan J. Smith,Donna Easterlow +1 more
TL;DR: A complementary narrative is written around the findings of qualitative "compositional" research as discussed by the authors, which is about the way health itself is drawn into the structuring of society and space, illustrated in the processes of selective placement, entrapment and displacement.
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Health and Deprivation: Inequality and the North
TL;DR: The authors present nuevas evidencias de las desigualdades en salud encontradas entre poblaciones o comunidades in diferentes areas del norte de Inglaterra and relata las tendencias a largo plazo that tienen lugar in los patrones de salud de InGLaterra.
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Health and Deprivation: Inequality and the North
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight material deprivation as the crucial factor in explaining inequalities in health in the UK and highlight the importance of material deprivation in health inequalities in communities in the north of England.
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Which deprivation? A comparison of selected deprivation indexes
Russell E. Morris,Vera Carstairs +1 more
TL;DR: The Scottish deprivation score and the Townsend index are found to explain most variation, and to adhere most closely to the concept of material disadvantage.