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County-level hurricane exposure and birth rates: application of difference-in-differences analysis for confounding control

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological analyses of aggregated data are often used to evaluate theoretical health effects of natural disasters. Such analyses are susceptible to confounding by unmeasured differences between the exposed and unexposed populations. To demonstrate the difference-in-difference method...

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Autores principales: Grabich, Shannon C., Robinson, Whitney R., Engel, Stephanie M., Konrad, Charles E., Richardson, David B., Horney, Jennifer A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4688997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26702293
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12982-015-0042-7