Derivation of indices of socioeconomic status for health services research in Asia

Background: Environmental contexts have been shown to predict health behaviours and outcomes either directly or via interaction with individual risk factors. In this paper, we created indexes of socioeconomic disadvantage (SEDI) and socioeconomic advantage (SAI) in Singapore to test the applicabilit...

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Main Authors: Arul Earnest, Marcus E.H. Ong, Nur Shahidah, Angelique Chan, Win Wah, Julian Thumboo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-01-01
Series:Preventive Medicine Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211335515000558