Hoskins R S
Wellington Hospital.
N Z Med J. 1990 Dec 12;103(903):584-5.
The relationship between the health and equity index of socioeconomic status/need and hospital admission rates has been investigated. The index is based on an area's population characteristics, and has previously been used for determining service provision and to describe an area's health need. This study demonstrates a strong positive correlation (r = 0.88, 95% confidence intervals 0.75 to 0.94) between the index and standardised hospital admission rates in the Auckland urban area. This association validates the index as a proxy for morbidity, in as much as hospital admission rates measure morbidity, and supports suggestions for its use to alter interregional and intraregional resource allocation.
社会经济地位/需求的健康与公平指数和住院率之间的关系已得到研究。该指数基于一个地区的人口特征，此前已用于确定服务提供情况并描述一个地区的健康需求。本研究表明，该指数与奥克兰市区的标准化住院率之间存在很强的正相关（r = 0.88，95%置信区间为0.75至0.94）。这种关联证实了该指数可作为发病率的替代指标，因为住院率衡量发病率，并支持将其用于改变区域间和区域内资源分配的建议。
