Lies, Damned Lies, and Health Inequality Measurements: Understanding the Value Judgments

Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 673-680

  Kjellsson, Gustav ^a,b   Gerdtham, Ulf G ^b   Petrie, Dennis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH INEQUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE; ADULT; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL BIAS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84940049081     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000319     Document Type: Article

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