Murray, ET, Shelton, N, Norman, P orcid.org/0000-0002-6211-1625 et al. (1 more author) (2022) Measuring the health of people in places: A scoping review of OECD member countries. Health & Place, 73. 102731. ISSN 1353-8292
Abstract
A scoping review was performed to identify how Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries measure overall health for sub-national geographies within each country. Sixty publications were selected from MEDLINE, Scopus and Google Scholar, plus information extracted from 37 of 38 OECD countries statistical agency and/or public health institute websites that were available in English. Data sources varied by categorisation into national statistical agency mortality (n = 7) or population-level survey morbidity (n = 5) health indicators. Region was the most common geographic scale (e.g., eight indicators for 26 countries), slightly fewer indicators for urban areas (max countries per most frequent indicator = 24), followed by municipality (range of 1–14 countries per indicator). Other geographies, particularly those at smaller granularity, were infrequently available across health indicators and countries. Wider availability of health indicators at smaller, and non-administrative, geographies is needed to explore the best way to measure comparative population health in local areas.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > Centre for Spatial Analysis & Policy (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Health Foundation 3110790 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Jan 2022 17:30 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:51 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102731 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:181907 |