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Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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508
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Health Policy Statistics Section
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| Abstract - #307887 |
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Title:
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Measuring Health Disparities in a Geographic Context: Spatial Estimates of Local Health Disparities
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Author(s):
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Lance Waller*+ and Megan Price and Eric Tassone and David C. Wheeler
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Companies:
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Emory University and Benetech and Google and National Cancer Institute
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Address:
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1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA, 30340,
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Keywords:
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Disparity ;
Spatial statistics ;
Hierarchical models
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Abstract:
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We categorize measures of health disparities by the questions addressed and data required. This exercise clarifies the types of disparities revealed by various measures. Next, we consider measures of local disparity in county-level stroke cases for the southeastern United States. The small-area nature of the data prompts our use of spatially smoothed hierarchical models to borrow strength from local and global trends. The framework allows model-based estimation of both relative and absolute disparity and reveals different patterns for each.
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