A multi-criteria spatial deprivation index to support health inequality analyses
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A multi-criteria spatial deprivation index to support health inequality analyses
BACKGROUND Deprivation indices are useful measures to analyze health inequalities. There are several methods to construct these indices, however, few studies have used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Multi-Criteria methods to construct a deprivation index. Therefore, this study applies Multi-Criteria Evaluation to calculate weights for the indicators that make up the deprivation index ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Health Geographics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1476-072X
DOI: 10.1186/s12942-015-0004-x