Fiona C. Ingleby
Assessment of the concordance between individual- and area-level measures of socio-economic deprivation in a cancer patient cohort in England and Wales
Ingleby, Fiona C.; Belot, Aur�lien; Atherton, Iain M.; Baker, Matthew; Elliss-Brookes, Lucy; Woods, Laura M.
Authors
Aur�lien Belot
Dr Iain Atherton I.Atherton@napier.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer
Matthew Baker
Lucy Elliss-Brookes
Laura M. Woods
Abstract
Objectives
Most research on health inequalities uses aggregated deprivation scores assigned to the small area where the patient lives; however, the concordance between aggregate area-level deprivation measures and personal deprivation experienced by individuals living in the area is poorly understood. Our objective was to examine the agreement between individual and ecological deprivation. We tested the concordance between metrics of income, occupation and education at individual and area levels, and assessed the reliability of area-based deprivation measures to predict individual deprivation circumstances.
Setting
England and Wales
Participants
A cancer patient cohort of 9,547 individuals extracted from the ONS Longitudinal Study.
Outcomes
We quantified the concordance between measures of income, occupation and education at individual and area level. In addition, we used ROC curves and the area under the curve (AUC) to assess the reliability of area-based deprivation measures to predict individual deprivation circumstances.
Results
We found low concordance between individual and area-level indicators of deprivation (Cramer’s V statistics range between 0.07 and 0.20). The most commonly used indicator in health inequalities research, area-based income deprivation, was a poor predictor of individual income status (AUC between 0.56 and 0.59), whereas education and occupation were slightly better predictors (AUC between 0.62 and 0.65). The results were consistent across sexes and across six major cancer types.
Conclusions
Our results indicate that ecological deprivation measures capture only part of the relationship between deprivation and health outcomes, especially with respect to income measurement. This has important implications for our understanding of the relationship between deprivation and health, and, as a consequence, healthcare policy. The results have a wide-reaching impact for the way in which we measure and monitor inequalities, and in turn, fund and organise current UK healthcare policy aimed at reducing them.
Citation
Ingleby, F. C., Belot, A., Atherton, I. M., Baker, M., Elliss-Brookes, L., & Woods, L. M. (2020). Assessment of the concordance between individual- and area-level measures of socio-economic deprivation in a cancer patient cohort in England and Wales. BMJ Open, 10(11), Article e041714. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041714
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 11, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 26, 2020 |
Publication Date | Nov 26, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Nov 12, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 26, 2020 |
Electronic ISSN | 2044-6055 |
Publisher | BMJ Publishing Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 11 |
Article Number | e041714 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041714 |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2700991 |
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