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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