Monitoring health inequalities: life expectancy and small area deprivation in New Zealand

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Monitoring health inequalities: life expectancy and small area deprivation in New Zealand

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Abstract Background Socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in health are of great concern, and life expectancy provides a readily understood means of monitoring such inequalities. The objectives of this study are to (1) measure life expectancy by socioeconomic deprivation and ethnicity, and (2) describe trends in the deprivation gradient in life expectancy since the mid-1990s. Methods Three years of national mortality data have been combined with mid-point population denominators to produce li...

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2003-04-01

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Cheung Jit / Tobias Martin I

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Population Health Metrics

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http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/1/1/2

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Computer applications to medicine / Medical informatics / Public aspects of medicine

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