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What is "Deprivation" in this context?

• hristov 6y ago
  I was wondering about that too. After some research it seems to be something like poverty. I.e., being deprived of decent living conditions, education opportunities employment opportunities, etc. In the paper they used this index which measures deprivation by living location in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_deprivation_index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_deprivation_index
• loeg 6y ago
  Poor. Many negative health outcomes correlate with poverty / deprivation.
• noneeeed 6y ago
  I think this may be a British English specific thing, but we use the word "deprivation" fairly interchangeably with "poverty".
• easytiger 6y ago
  And how are they determining it from patient records?