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Monitoring health inequalities when the socio-economic composition changes: are the slope and relative indices of inequality appropriate? Results of a simulation study
Keywords: Health inequality Inequality indices Monitoring Relative index of inequality Abstract: BACKGROUND: The slope (SII) and relative (RII) indices of inequality are commonly recommended to monitor health ...
Using multiple measures to assess changes in social inequalities for breast cancer screening
indices measuring the total inequality impact at population level: the Population Attributable Fraction (PAF), the Relative Index of Inequality (RII) and the Slope Index of Inequality (SII). Results: All ...
Using multiple inequality indices to assess changes in social inequalities for breast cancer screening in Belgium
measure measures measuring method methods Multiple national national screening objectives PAF period POPULATION prevalence programme Ratio relative Relative index of inequality result results RII SCREENING ...
Evolution of social inequalities after the introduction of a breast cancer screening program. Conference Proceeding of the 5th International Congres of Epidemiology of Adelf-Epiter, Brusselss 2012
screening measure measures method methods national national screening objectives observed ODDS RATIO PAF period prevalence PROGRAM proxies Proxy RATES Ratio Reduction regression relative result results RII RR ...
Multiple risk behaviour: increasing socio-economic gap over time?
dichotomized as low (0-2) vs. high (3-4). For the assessment of socio-economic inequalities in multiple risk behaviour, summary measures as Odds Ratio (OR) and Relative Index of Inequality (RII) were calculated ...
Socioeconomic inequalities in lung cancer mortality in 16 European populations.
Educational inequalities in lung cancer and total mortality were assessed by direct standardization and calculation of two indices of inequality: the Relative Index of Inequality (RII) and the Slope Index of ...