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Title: Small area estimates of smoking prevalence in London. Testing the effect of input data
Related: Health and place, Vol. 18, No. 3, (2012), p.630-638
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.12.010
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2012
Author/Creator: Hermes, Kerstin
Author/Creator: Poulsen, Michael
Description: Small area estimates (SAEs) can provide information about health behaviour at small area levels that is otherwise not available. Because of its increasing use by policy makers, more attention needs to be paid to the reliability of these estimates. This paper reports on smoking prevalence data generated for London at the neighbourhood level using spatial microsimulation modelling. We test the reliability of smoking prevalence estimates at the neighbourhood level using different input datasets. The paper further underlines the importance of estimating health behaviours at the small area level, particularly in diverse cities such as London, where estimation at the city level can mask significant spatial differences.
Description: 9 page(s)
Subject Keyword: Health data
Subject Keyword: London
Subject Keyword: Small area estimates
Subject Keyword: Smoking
Subject Keyword: Spatial microsimulation
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Environment and Geography

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