Comparative research in social epidemiology: measurement issues
Ethn Dis
; 1(4): 379-93, Fall 1991.
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ABSTRACT
The aim of comparative research in soical epidemiology is to determine how risk factors for disease may vary within and between sociocultural and ethnic groups and in relation to outcomes. This aim assumes that measurement equivalence within and between social groups can be established, an assumption usually left untested. A model is presented here for deriving cross-culturally valid measures that are also intraculturally sensitive. Measurements so derived can then be used to compare cross-cultural and intracultural effects in a single analytic model. This approach is illustrated by pooling data on social stressors, social supports, and blood pressure from three studies. (AU)
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Assunto principal:
Comparação Transcultural
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Métodos Epidemiológicos
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Metanálise
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Hipertensão
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo de etiologia
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Estudo prognóstico
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Fatores de risco
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Estudo de rastreamento
Limite:
Adulto
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Feminino
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Humanos
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Masculino
País/Região como assunto:
América do Sul
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Brasil
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Caribe Inglês
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Jamaica
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México
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Ethn Dis
Ano de publicação:
1991
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