Measuring health-related social deprivation in small areas: development of an index and examination of its association with cancer mortality by Kailu Wang, Chi-Kin Law, Jiaying Zhao, Alvin Yik-Kiu Hui, Benjamin Hon-Kei Yip, Eng Kiong Yeoh, Roger Yat-Nork Chung

“…There is a potential large improvement in cancer mortality by offering relevant policies and interventions to reduce health-related deprivation. Further studies can be done to design strategies to reduce the expanding health inequalities between more and less deprived areas.…”
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Association of socio-economic deprivation with COVID-19 incidence and fatality during the first wave of the pandemic in Italy: lessons learned from a local register-based study by Francesca Fortunato, Roberto Lillini, Domenico Martinelli, Giuseppina Iannelli, Leonardo Ascatigno, Georgia Casanova, Pier Luigi Lopalco, Rosa Prato

“…Effects of socio-economic condition were calculated by means of the Socio-Economic and Health-related Deprivation Index (SEHDI) on COVID-19 incidence and fatality. …”
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Measuring the degree of development and educational deprivation of Sistan and Baluchistan Counties by M. karimzadeh, B. karimzadeh

“…Conclusion: Research findings show that 84.21% of the province counties are at relatively deprived and deprived level of development and none of the counties of the province are at a developed or relatively developed level. …”
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Development of geographic inequality in dental caries and its association with socioeconomic factors over an 18-year period in Denmark by Kaushik Sengupta, Kristine Bihrmann, Lisa Bøge Christensen, Laust Hvas Mortensen, Ingelise Andersen, Annette Kjær Ersbøll

“…However, geographic inequalities persisted with higher caries levels largely concentrated in the relatively deprived areas of Denmark. Increasing relative socioeconomic inequalities in caries over time were observed with significant graded associations between SEP and caries despite adjustment for the various individual and neighborhood-level covariates and the effect of assessment year (e.g., 15-year-olds with parents having basic education had 1.91-fold [95% CI: 1.86–1.95] higher caries experience than those having parents with high education). …”
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Comparing how patients value and respond to information on risk given in three different forms during dental check-ups: the PREFER randomised controlled trial by R. Harris, V. Lowers, L. Laverty, C. Vernazza, G. Burnside, S. Brown, L. Ternent

“…Practice attended, preferring TL the most and having fewer than 20 teeth were associated with increased WTP; and living in a relatively deprived area or having low literacy decreased WTP. …”
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Household transmission of seasonal coronavirus infections: Results from the Flu Watch cohort study [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Sarah Beale, Dan Lewer, Robert W. Aldridge, Anne M. Johnson, Maria Zambon, Andrew Hayward, Ellen Fragaszy

“…Households including older adults, 3+ children, current smokers, contacts with chronic health conditions, and those in relatively deprived areas had the highest transmission risks. …”
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Advocacy interventions to reduce or eliminate violence and promote the physical and psychosocial well‐being of women who experience intimate partner abuse by Jean Ramsay, Yvonne Carter, Leslie Davidson, Danielle Dunne, Sandra Eldridge, Gene Feder, Kelsey Hegarty, Carol Rivas, Angela Taft, Alison Warburton

“…Participants were recruited from diverse ethnic populations and across a wide age range (15‐61 years), but manyhad a relatively deprived socioeconomic status. Most were experiencing current, often severe, abuse. …”
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A randomised controlled trial and cost-effectiveness evaluation of ‘booster’ interventions to sustain increases in physical activity in middle-aged adults in deprived urban neighbo... by Elizabeth Goyder, Daniel Hind, Jeff Breckon, Munyaradzi Dimairo, Jonathan Minton, Emma Everson-Hock, Simon Read, Robert Copeland, Helen Crank, Kimberly Horspool, Liam Humphreys, Andrew Hutchison, Sue Kesterton, Nicolas Latimer, Emma Scott, Peter Swaile, Stephen J Walters, Rebecca Wood, Karen Collins, Cindy Cooper

“…Future research with middle-aged and relatively deprived populations should explore interventions to promote physical activity that require less proactive engagement from individuals, including environmental interventions. …”
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Spatial Analysis of Tourism and Urban Development Indicators with Happy City Approach(Case study: Shiraz Metropolitan) by sara mirzaei, Ali Zanghiabadi

“…Zones 2,  3, 6 and 10 are in the third level, i.e. relatively deprived. Zones 4, 5, 7, 9 and 11 are in the lowest level and are among the deprived areas in terms of Indicators of urban development in related to tourism. …”
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Analysis of Sustainable Development Level Based on Information and Communication Technology in Rural Areas (Case study: Jiroft County) by Mohsen Aghayari Hir, Mohammad Zaheri, Hossein Karimzadeh, reza talebifard

“…Therefore, considering the results of the cluster analysis, it can be stated that 8 villages fall in the cluster “developed”, 11 villages in the “relatively developed” cluster, 6 villages in the cluster “intermediate (normal) development”, 8 villages in the “relatively deprived” cluster and, finally, 5 villages in the “deprived” cluster in terms of the ICT-based sustainable development. …”
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