Does the multidimensional nature of super profiles help district health authorities understand the way social capital affects health?
P Aveyard0,1 S Manaseki0,1 J Chambers0 0 Department of Public Health, Birmingham Health Authority, St Chads Court, 213 Hagley Road, Birmingham B16 9RG, UK 1 Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK Corresponding author E-mail: p.n.aveyard@bham.ac.uk Background.Social capital describes the notion that the social processes in an area can lead to benefits in health. As Super Profiles describe the social character of an area and they are easy for health authorities to use, they could provide a simple method for local assessment of how social organization affects health. Method.We calculated the expected mean birthweight for the enumeration districts of Birmingham based upon marital status, registration details of the child, year of birth, the mother’s country of birth, fetal sex and deprivation as judged by the Townsend score using data from 138 696 live-born singleton births for the years 1986-1996 inclusive. We classified enumeration
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