How well does the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation identify income and employment deprived individuals across the urban-rural spectrum and between local authorities?

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The island effect: Spatial effects on mental wellbeing and residence on remote Scottish islands

Kathryn Halliday et al.

Summary: This study found that living in more remote or rural areas in Scotland is associated with lower rates of mental illness, partially due to neighborhood social structures shaped by geographical isolation. Individual factors such as social class and ethnicity cannot fully explain this variation.

WELLBEING SPACE AND SOCIETY (2022)

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Economic relationships and health inequalities: improving public health recommendations

A. Sayer et al.

Summary: In order to reduce health inequalities, addressing economic relationships between social groups is essential in addition to improving the incomes, working conditions and physical environments of the most deprived groups.

PUBLIC HEALTH (2021)

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Health inequalities, fundamental causes and power: towards the practice of good theory

Gerry McCartney et al.

Summary: This paper discusses the challenge of reducing health inequalities using the 'fundamental cause theory', emphasizing the importance of power in maintaining, increasing, or reducing social and economic inequalities. It proposes a framework to identify sources, forms, and positions of power to reduce inequalities.

SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS (2021)

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