Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Québec, Canada G1V 5B3.
Health Place. 2010 Mar;16(2):416-20. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.11.012. Epub 2009 Dec 3.
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 individual or household level. This paper compares inequalities in survival according to an individual and area-based version of a deprivation index among a large sample of Canadians living in various urban and rural settings. Results show that survival inequalities in small towns and rural areas are lower than elsewhere when an area-based index is used, except in the remote hinterland, but of equal magnitude when the individual version of this index is considered.
社会健康不平等在农村地区比城市地区要小，因为有人认为，人们的社会状况是在小区域层面上估计的，掩盖了个人或家庭层面的可变性。本文比较了在不同城市和农村环境中生活的大量加拿大人，根据个人和基于区域的剥夺指数版本，在生存方面的不平等。结果表明，当使用基于区域的指数时，与其他地区相比，小城镇和农村地区的生存不平等程度较低，除了偏远的内陆地区，但当考虑到该指数的个人版本时，其不平等程度则相等。
