Since its creation in the late 1990s, the Québec index of material and social deprivation has been widely utilized in the field of public health for purposes that range from health monitoring and policy development to evaluation of services and resource allocation. More recently, a Canadian version of the index has been produced and used at that level.
There are provincial, regional, and local versions of the Québec index. Four revisions have been made over the years, in conjunction…