STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to assess the relationship between social deprivation, as measured by the Jarman under-privileged area score (UPA score), and psychiatric admission rates and length of stay within an inner London borough. DESIGN The study was a retrospective survey of psychiatric admission rates for electoral wards in the London borough of Islington in relation to Jarman UPA scores...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of water fluoridation, both artificial and natural, on dental decay, after socioeconomic deprivation was controlled for. DESIGN Ecological study based on results from the NHS dental surveys in 5 year olds in 1991-2 and 1993-4 and Jarman underprivileged area scores from the 1991 census. SETTING Electoral wards in three areas: Hartlepool (naturally fluoridated)...

in order to identify the risk factors (predictors) of re-hospitalisation for high-risk asthmatic patients, a retrospective logistic regression analysis describing the relationship between the probability of re-admission and possible predictors in hospitalised asthmatics, aged over 5 years, between 1994-1998, was designed. study setting was a district general hospital in the west yorkshire, uk. ...

OBJECTIVE To compare night visit rates in different electoral wards of one general practice with the Jarman and Townsend deprivation scores and unemployment rates. DESIGN Analysis of computerised workload data. SETTING General practice in centre of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. OUTCOME MEASURE Visits made in 588 nights to the 11,998 patients on the practice list. RESULTS Night visit rates...

The allocation of General practitioners deprivation payments has been a contentious issue since it was first proposed. This paper examines the method of allocation of such payments in Northern Ireland. A more equitable system would be based on enumeration districts, have a lower Jarman score and a closer relationship between Jarman score and remuneration. Unlike other parts of the UK these chan...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to compare the ability of census based social deprivation scores devised by Jarman, Carstairs, and Townsend to predict workload in general practice. DESIGN This was a prospective study of 140,050 patients registered with general practices over one year from 1 July 1981 (Third National Morbidity Survey). Main outcome measures were workload score for each patient, de...

OBJECTIVE To analyse critically the use of the Jarman underprivileged area index in health care planning and distribution of resources. DESIGN The original derivation of the score was examined and evidence to support criticisms of the use of underprivileged area scores examined. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Discrepancies between areas classified as deprived according to the index and areas known t...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to replicate, in a non-metropolitan area, a study by Curtis based on data from different parts of London which found a significant relationship between individual morbidity and neighbourhood deprivation. DESIGN This study used the same design as the previous study. Information on individual morbidity was obtained, using the Nottingham health profile. Deprivation sc...

BACKGROUND Widespread scepticism persists on the use of the Under-Privileged Area (UPA8) score of Jarman in distributing supplementary resources to so-attributed 'deprived' UK general practices. The search for better 'needs' markers continues. Having already shown that Council Tax Valuation Band (CTVB) is a predictor of UK GP workload, we compare, here, CTVB of residence of a random sample of p...