This is the program for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Activity Details

508 * ! Wed, 8/4/2010, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-210 (West)
Issues in Measuring Health Disparities — Topic Contributed Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section , Biometrics Section , ENAR , Section on Survey Research Methods
Organizer(s): Makram Talih, CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College
Chair(s): Makram Talih, CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College
10:35 AM Adjusting for Treatment Disparities in Observational Research Marshall M. Joffe, University of Pennsylvania
10:55 AM Collider Stratification Bias as a Threat to Validity in U.S.-Based Health Disparities Research Whitney R. Robinson, University of Michigan ; Jay Kaufman, McGill University
11:15 AM Measuring Health Disparities in a Geographic Context: Spatial Estimates of Local Health Disparities Lance Waller, Emory University ; Megan Price, Benetech ; Eric Tassone, Google ; David C. Wheeler, National Cancer Institute
11:35 AM A Symmetric, Entropy-Based, Relative and Quasi-Absolute Measure of Health Disparities: An Example Using Dental Caries in U.S. Children and Adolescents Luisa N. Borrell, Lehman College - CUNY ; Makram Talih, CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College
11:55 AM Underlying Properties of Health Disparity Indices Stuart A. Gansky, University of California, San Francisco ; Nancy F. Cheng, University of California, San Francisco ; Gloria C. Mejia, University of California, San Francisco
10:15 AM Floor Discussion



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