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Improving the validity of estimates of mortality inequalities by education in England & Wales.
Health inequalities are an important societal injustice. Understanding their scale and trends, and how they compare internationally, is needed to inform policy and practice, and also in order to evaluate the impacts of different policies. Many studies comparing health inequality trends across Europe have used educational attainment as a means of ranking adult populations, but there have been challenges as a consequence of the educational attainment data being missing, or categorising a very large proportion of the total population into a single group. Janssen et al. have recognised this challenge and have proposed an innovative and helpful method to overcome the problems of missing data. Although these are useful improvements, they still leave > 80% of the population categorised in the same group for some years, limiting the validity of the inequality measure.
期刊介绍:
Population Health Metrics aims to advance the science of population health assessment, and welcomes papers relating to concepts, methods, ethics, applications, and summary measures of population health. The journal provides a unique platform for population health researchers to share their findings with the global community. We seek research that addresses the communication of population health measures and policy implications to stakeholders; this includes papers related to burden estimation and risk assessment, and research addressing population health across the full range of development. Population Health Metrics covers a broad range of topics encompassing health state measurement and valuation, summary measures of population health, descriptive epidemiology at the population level, burden of disease and injury analysis, disease and risk factor modeling for populations, and comparative assessment of risks to health at the population level. The journal is also interested in how to use and communicate indicators of population health to reduce disease burden, and the approaches for translating from indicators of population health to health-advancing actions. As a cross-cutting topic of importance, we are particularly interested in inequalities in population health and their measurement.