We model group formation as a response to relative deprivation. We employ a simple measure of relative deprivation. We show that the process of deprivationinduced self-selection into groups reaches a unique steady state. We study the social welfare implications of the deprivation-induced process of group formation and show that when individuals are left to pursue their betterment the resulting ...

This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking and quantifying the extent of deprivation exhibited by multidimensional distributions, where the multiple attributes in which an individual can be deprived are represented by dichotomized variables. To this end we first aggregate deprivation for each individual into a distribution of deprivation count, representing the number of dimensions for...

Identification and quantification of health inequities amongst specific social groups is a pre-requisite for designing targeted healthcare interventions. This study investigated the recording of social factors in linked electronic health records (EHR) of individuals aged ≥65 years, to assess the potential of these data to identify the social determinants of disease burden and uptake of healthca...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between age at presentation of amblyopia and social deprivation before and after the introduction of changes to a vision screening service. DESIGN Two cohorts of children treated for amblyopia in 1983 and 1992. SETTING THe orthoptic department of Leicester Royal Infirmary. PARTICIPANTS The 209 patients treated for amblyopia who first attende...

In light of widespread agreement that poverty and social exclusion should be understood as multidimensional phenomenon, in this paper we explore the practical implications of such an understanding in relation to widely employed indicators of such phenomena in Ireland. One persistent critique of the current national measures of poverty and social exclusion comes from those who feel that the find...

OBJECTIVE To identify which physician and patient characteristics are associated with physicians' estimation of their patient social status. DESIGN Cross-sectional multicentric survey. SETTING Fourty-seven primary care private offices in Western Switzerland. PARTICIPANTS Random sample of 2030 patients ≥ 16, who encountered a general practitioner (GP) between September 2010 and February 20...

BACKGROUND The goals of the study are evaluation the effects of food deprivation and isolation situation as a social stress on fertility; and in the following, investigation of the improving effect of melatonin as an antioxidant component. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this experimental study, We investigated histopathological and serological effects of melatonin and social stress (food deprivatio...

INTRODUCTION Studies suggest that hypertension is more prevalent in the most deprived. Our objective was to examine the association between incident hypertension and deprivation in Quebec based on different modes of case identification, using two administrative databases. METHODS We identified new incident cases of hypertension in 2006/2007 in the population aged 20 years plus. Socio-economic...

There is a known association between social deprivation and risk of death from unintentional injury in childhood. In the UK context, these inequalities do not appear to be decreasing. This paper reports on the findings of a systematic review of the world literature between 1975 and 2000 on the prevention of childhood injuries, with particular reference to social deprivation. Literature was iden...

Poverty, the extent of relative deprivation, and the processes of social exclusion in a society have a major impact on the health of its population. All over Europe, in richer countries as well as poorer ones, those people who are worse off in socio-economic terms have worse health outcomes and higher death rates than those who are better off. Particular ‘minority’ ethnic groups are often in po...