Epidemiological research on marginalized groups implies major validity challenges; lesbian health as an example

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 703-710

  Malterud, Kirsti ^a   Bjorkman, Mari ^a   Flatval, Mona ^b   Ohnstad, Anbjorg ^c   Thesen, Janecke ^d,e   Rortveit, Guri ^a,e  

^a Research Unit for General Practice   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^d National Centre for Emergency Primary Health Care   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bias; Epidemiological methods; Homosexuality female; Population groups; Risk; Social values

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ERROR; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; LESBIAN; MINORITY GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 67349240812     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.07.017     Document Type: Article

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