Comparison and Relative Utility of Inequality Measurements: As Applied to Scotland’s Child Dental Health

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 8; no. 3; p. e58593
• Main Authors: Blair, Yvonne I., McMahon, Alex D., Macpherson, Lorna M. D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 08.03.2013; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Child; Child health; Child, Preschool; Children & youth; Datasets; Dental caries; Dental Caries - epidemiology; Dental health; Deprivation; Epidemiological Monitoring; Epidemiology; Equality; Families & family life; Female; Health; Health disparities; Humans; Inequalities; Inequality; Libraries; Male; Mathematical analysis; Medicine; Methods; Models, Biological; Morbidity; Observer Variation; Oral hygiene; Population; Public health; Retrospective Studies; Scotland - epidemiology; Socio-economic aspects; Socioeconomic factors; Socioeconomics; Studies; Teeth; Trends; Scotland; Glasgow Scotland; United Kingdom > UK

This study compared and assessed the utility of tests of inequality on a series of very large population caries datasets. National cross-sectional caries datasets for Scotland's 5-year-olds in 1993/94 (n = 5,078); 1995/96 (n = 6,240); 1997/98 (n = 6,584); 1999/00 (n = 6,781); 2002/03 (n = 9,747...