Socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent health have been little studied until recently, partly
due to the lack of appropriate and agreed upon measures for this age group. The difficulties …

Background People's social and economic circumstances are important determinants of
their health, health experiences, healthcare access, and healthcare outcomes. However …

Background Spatial health inequalities have often been analysed in terms of deprivation.
The aim of this study was to create an ecological deprivation index and evaluate its …

Background Studying social disparities in health implies the ability to measure them
accurately, to compare them between different areas or countries and to follow trends over …

Although suicide accounts for a small percentage of deaths in Scotland (1.4% in 1999), it
has been steadily increasing over the last two decades. In the US, Australia, England and …

Social health inequalities are smaller in rural than urban areas because, some argue,
people's social conditions are estimated at a small-area level, hiding variability at the …

Young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) are a focus of
government attention in the UK. For social service professionals the mechanisms …

Due mainly to increasing difficulties in recruiting and retaining health professionals to work
in remote and peripheral areas of Scotland, there is discussion of the need to implement …

Background This paper explores how community participation can be used in designing
rural primary healthcare services by describing a study of Scottish communities. Community …

The access domain of the UK index of multiple deprivation (IMD) 2000 was designed to
identify populations in small areas with poor geographical access to certain local key …