Monitoring trends in socioeconomic health inequalities: it matters how you measure

BACKGROUND: Odds ratio (OR), a relative measure for health inequality, has frequently been used in prior studies for presenting inequality trends in health and health behaviors. Since OR is not a good approximation of prevalence ratio (PR) when the outcome prevalence is quite high, an important prob...

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Autores principales: Khang, Young-Ho, Yun, Sung-Cheol, Lynch, John W
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2266739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18284701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-66

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2266739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18284701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-66

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