Can changes in the distributions of and associations between education and income bias temporal comparisons of health disparities? an exploration with causal graphs and simulations

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 177, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 870-881

  Chen, Jarvis T ^a   Beckfield, Jason ^b   Waterman, Pamela D ^a   Krieger, Nancy ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bias; causal inference; education; epidemiologic methods; income; relative index of inequality; secular trends; socioeconomics

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH STATUS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; INCOME; MEASUREMENT ERROR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIAS; CAUSAL INFERENCE; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; INCOME; RELATIVE INDEX OF INEQUALITY; SECULAR TRENDS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84877262615     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt041     Document Type: Article

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