Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Monitoring Socioeconomic Gradients in Health: A Comparison of Area-Based Socioeconomic MeasuresThe Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project
Nancy Krieger, PhD,
Jarvis T. Chen, ScD,
Pamela D. Waterman, MPH,
David H. Rehkopf, MPH and
S. V. Subramanian, PhD
The authors are with the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.
FIGURE 1—Scaled relative index of inequality (RII) plot, with ln (RII/median RII) for the 11 area-based socioeconomic measures (ABSMs) at the census tract level (Massachusetts, ca. 1990) for all health outcomes for (a) total population, (b) White women, (c) Black women, (d) Hispanic women, (e) White men, (f) Black men, (g) Hispanic men, and (h) for low birthweight and premature mortality only for Asian and Pacific Islander and American Indian women and men, from The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project.
Note. MA = Massachusetts; RI = Rhode Island; WRISS = Weapons-Related Injury Surveillance System. For explanation of SEP1 and SEP index, see "Methods" section.