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Vera Carstairs obituary

Vera Carstairs’ professional legacy is the Carstairs Index of Deprivation SusanCarstairs Sun 3 Jan 2021 10.25 EST Last modified on Fri 22 Jan 2021 20.14 EST My mother, Vera Carstairs, who has died aged 95, was a research social scientist in the civil service. She devoted her studies to illuminating links between social and economic deprivation and poor health. As a civil servant, Vera was employed as a social researcher and statistician, first as principal research officer for the Scottish Home and Health Department (1966-75), then as assistant director in the Scottish Health Department Information Services Division. In addition she taught in the University of Edinburgh Medical School, later serving as Scottish Health Services Research Network Coordinator.