Journal article
Income and individual deprivation as predictors of health over time
F Imlach Gunasekara, KN Carter, P Crampton, T Blakely
International Journal of Public Health | SPRINGER BASEL AG | Published : 2013
Abstract
Objectives: Poverty, often defined as a lack of resources to achieve a living standard that is deemed acceptable by society, may be assessed using level of income or a measure of individual deprivation. However, the relationship between low income and deprivation is complex-for example, not everyone who has low income is deprived (and vice versa). In addition, longitudinal studies show only a small relationship between short-term changes in income and health but an alternative measure of poverty, such as deprivation, may have a stronger association with health over time. We aim to compare low income and individual deprivation as predictors of self-rated health (SRH), using longitudinal surve..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Survey of Family, Income and Employment Health was primarily funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand (reference 08/048) as part of the Health Inequalities Research Programme. Ethics approval for the SoFIE-Health module was obtained from the University of Otago Human Ethics Committee. Ethical oversight of SoFIE was governed by the Statistics Act 1975, as SoFIE was administered as part of the work programme of Statistics New Zealand. Access to the data used in this study was provided by Statistics New Zealand in a secure environment designed to give effect to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act 1975. The results in this study and any errors contained therein are those of the author, not Statistics New Zealand.