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Title: Into a SEIFA SES cul-de-sac?
Related: Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, Vol. 25, Issue 4, p. 305-306
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2001.tb00584.x
Publisher: Public Health Association of Australia
Date: 2001
Author/Creator: McCracken, Kevin
Description: Use of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' SEIFA scores has almost become an automatic practice in area-based research on socio-economic status (SES) corrrelates of health inequalities in Australia in recent years. This article questions the wisdom of this emerging heavy, often singular, reliance on the SEIFA indexes for representing areal socio-economic condition. It is argued that improvements in our understanding of the social and economic processes that produce health inequalities will not occur unless we move beyond SEIFA's broad brush. Data for New England Area Health local government areas are used to support the argument.
Description: 2 page(s)
Subject Keyword: Australian Bureau of Statistics
Subject Keyword: SEIFA scores
Subject Keyword: socio-economic status (SES)
Subject Keyword: health inequalities
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Human Geography

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