Invited commentary: Can changes in the distributions of and associations between education and income bias estimates of temporal trends in health disparities?

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 177, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 882-884

  Talih, Makram ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

conditional independence; health literacy; undirected graphs

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; BODY MASS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; TREND STUDY;

CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE; HEALTH LITERACY; UNDIRECTED GRAPHS;

EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84877300459     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt042     Document Type: Review

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