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Methodological Approaches to Understanding Causes of Health Disparities
- Source :
- American Journal of Public Health. 109:S28-S33
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- American Public Health Association, 2019.
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Abstract
- Understanding health disparity causes is an important first step toward developing policies or interventions to eliminate disparities, but their nature makes identifying and addressing their causes challenging. Potential causal factors are often correlated, making it difficult to distinguish their effects. These factors may exist at different organizational levels (e.g., individual, family, neighborhood), each of which needs to be appropriately conceptualized and measured. The processes that generate health disparities may include complex relationships with feedback loops and dynamic properties that traditional statistical models represent poorly. Because of this complexity, identifying disparities’ causes and remedies requires integrating findings from multiple methodologies. We highlight analytic methods and designs, multilevel approaches, complex systems modeling techniques, and qualitative methods that should be more broadly employed and adapted to advance health disparities research and identify approaches to mitigate them.
- Subjects :
- Research design
Models, Statistical
030505 public health
Management science
Extramural
Association (object-oriented programming)
education
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Psychological intervention
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Methods and Measurement Science
Causality
Health Services Accessibility
Health equity
body regions
03 medical and health sciences
fluids and secretions
Research Design
parasitic diseases
Humans
Healthcare Disparities
0305 other medical science
Psychology
Qualitative research
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15410048 and 00900036
- Volume :
- 109
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c7bbc6349cb8c8c8ff66ee2dc14fa19c