AIMS To investigate infant deaths in Cumbria, 1950-93, in relation to individual and community level socioeconomic status. METHODS Retrospective birth cohort study of all 283,668 live births and 4889 infant deaths in Cumbria, 1950-93. Community deprivation (Townsend score) and individual social class were used to estimate socioeconomic status. Logistic regression was used to investigate risk ...

This paper proposes a measure for deprivation in social participation, an important but so far neglected dimension of human well-being. Operationalisation and empirical implementation the are conceptually guided by capability approach. Essentially, argues that participation can be convincingly established drawing on extensive non-participation customary activities. In doing so, present synthesi...

Poverty in the United States is experienced in multidimensional and intersecting forms. Problems like severe income poverty, for example, often coincide with joblessness, housing insecurity, and family instability, all of which can be mutually reinforcing. In one of the most influential accounts of such hardship, The Truly Disadvantaged, William Julius Wilson (2012 [1987], 3) focuses on the soc...

This study aims to measure social services deprivation experienced by Malaysian poor children. Social are among the basic needs that required for prosperity and development of Living in poverty makes children vulnerable due family economic conditions. Malaysians still do not have a comprehensive index indicator on deprivation. Comprehensive needed improve existing child delivery welfare system ...