Measurement Of Deprivation And Social Class

Question 1

Does social position primarily affect health or does health primarily affect social position?

Answer 1

Social causation = social position leads to health; social drift = health leads to social position
The hypothesis of social causation suggests that socioeconomic status influences health status whereas social drift proposes that health status contributes to socioeconomic status. Stronger evidence for social causation.

Question 2

Individual level indicators of social class and deprivation in health science

Answer 2

Education, income, occupation

Question 3

Area based indicators

Answer 3

Proxies for individual level measures such as income. E.g. index of multiple deprivation, Townsend deprivation index, jarman

Question 4

What do the adult dental health survey (ADHS) and children dental health survey use?

Answer 4

Eligibility for free school meals
Occupational class
Index of multiple deprivation