Disparities in defining disparities: Statistical conceptual frameworks

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 3941-3956

  Duan, Naihua ^a,b   Meng, Xiao Li ^c   Lin, Julia Y ^d,e   Chen, Chih Nan ^e   Alegria, Margarita ^d,e  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterfactual populations; Disparities; Mental health; Potential outcomes; Simpson's paradox; Weighting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

CAUSALITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50849128482     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3283     Document Type: Article

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