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Activity Number:
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167
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Type:
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Luncheons
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 7, 2006 : 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Health Policy Statistics
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| Abstract - #307326 |
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Title:
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Measuring Health Disparities
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Author(s):
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James Scanlan*+
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Companies:
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James P. Scanlan, Attorney at Law
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Address:
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1529 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington, DC, 20007,
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Keywords:
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health disparities ; health inequalities ; mortality differentials ; measuring ; relative differences ; absolute differences
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Abstract:
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When two groups differ in their susceptibility to an outcome, a decline in the prevalence of an outcome tends to increase relative differences in experiencing the outcome and reduce relative differences in avoiding the outcome. Such declines also cause various changes to other indexes used to measure the size of differences in experiencing an outcome. These tendencies call into question almost all research to date on changes in the size of health disparities and raise questions as to whether such changes can, in fact, be evaluated.
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