Area deprivation measures used in Brazil: a scoping review

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To describe and assess currently used area-based measures of deprivation in Brazil for health research, to the purpose of informing the development of a future small area deprivation index. METHODS We searched five electronic databases and seven websites of Brazilian research in...

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Main Authors: Maria Yury Travassos Ichihara, Dandara Ramos, Poliana Rebouças, Flávia Jôse Oliveira, Andrêa J. F. Ferreira, Camila Teixeira, Mirjam Allik, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Mauricio L. Barreto, Alastair H Leyland, Ruth Dundas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2018-09-01
Series:Revista de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102018000100508&lng=en&tlng=en