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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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BioMed Central
2008
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| 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 |