Methods in social epidemiology / edited by J. Michael Oakes, Jay S. Kaufman, editors.

Advancing methods in social epidemiology The measurement of socioeconomic status Measuring and analyzing 'race', racism, and racial discrimination Measuring poverty Health inequalities : measurement and decomposition A conceptual framework for measuring segregation and its association with population outcomes Measures of residential community contexts Community-based participatory research : rationale and relevance for social epidemiology Social network analysis for epidemiology Fieldwork with in-depth interviews : how to get strangers in the city to tell you their stories Experimental social epidemiology : controlled community trials Propensity score matching for social epidemiology Longitudinal approaches to social epidemiologic research Fixed effects and difference-in-differences Fixed versus random effects models for multilevel and longitudinal data Mediation analysis in social epidemiology A roadmap for estimating and interpreting population intervention parameters Natural experiments and instrumental variables analyses in social epidemiology Using causal diagrams to understand common problems in social epidemiology

A thorough, practical reference on the social patterns behind health outcomes Methods in Social Epidemiology provides students and professionals with a comprehensive reference for studying the Read more...

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.