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ArticleFrontiers in public health2024

Individual-based socioeconomic vulnerability and deprivation indices: a scoping review.

Dionysios Palermos, Elpida Pavi, Panagiotis Halvatsiotis, Polyxeni Mangoulia, Theodoros N Sergentanis, Theodora Psaltopoulou

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 authors.

Dionysios PalermosDepartment of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
Elpida PaviDepartment of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
Panagiotis HalvatsiotisSecond Propaedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Polyxeni MangouliaDepartment of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Theodoros N SergentanisDepartment of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
Theodora PsaltopoulouDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, "Alexandra" Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several individual-based social deprivation and vulnerability indices have been developed to measure the negative impact of low socioeconomic status on health outcomes. However, their variables and measurable characteristics have not been unequivocally assessed. A comprehensive database literature scoping review was performed to identify all individual-based social deprivation and vulnerability indices. Area-based indices and those developed for pediatric populations were excluded. Data were extracted from all eligible studies and their methodology was assessed with quality criteria. A total of 14 indices were identified, of which 64% (9/14) measured social deprivation and 36% (5/14) measured socioeconomic vulnerability. Sum of weights was the most common scoring system, present in 43% (6/14) of all indices, with no exclusive domains to either vulnerability or deprivation indices. A total of 83 different variables were identified; a very frequent variable (29%; 5/14) related to an individual's social relationships was "seen any family or friends or neighbors." Only five deprivation indices reported a specific internal consistency measure, while no indices reported data on reproducibility. This is the first scoping review of individual-based deprivation and vulnerability indices, which may be used interchangeably when measuring the impact of SES on health outcomes.

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Vulnerable PopulationsHumansReproducibility of ResultsSocial ClassSocial DeprivationSocioeconomic Factorsdeprivationhealth inequalitiesindexsocioeconomic statussocioeconomic vulnerability

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