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16781704

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-9-1
pubmed:abstractText
Reducing racial/ethnic and socioeconomic environmental health disparities requires a comprehensive multilevel conceptual and quantitative approach that recognizes the various levels through which environmental health disparities are produced and perpetuated. We propose a conceptual framework that incorporates the micro level, contained within the local level, which in turn is contained within the macro level. We discuss the utility of multilevel techniques to examine environmental level (both physical and social) and individual-level factors to appropriately quantify and improve our understanding of environmental health disparities. We discuss the reasoning and the methodological approach behind multilevel modeling, including differentiating between individual and contextual influences on individual outcomes. Next we address the questions and principles that guide the choice of levels or geographic units in multilevel studies. Finally, we address the ways in which different data sources can be combined to produce suitable data for multilevel analyses. We provide some examples of how such data sources can be linked to create multilevel data structures, and offer suggestions to facilitate the integration of multilevel techniques in environmental health disparities research and monitoring.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0013-9351
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
102
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
172-80
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Levels of analysis for the study of environmental health disparities.
pubmed:affiliation
STATWORKS, 800 Matthew Court, Suite 102, Braintree, MA 02184, USA. mah-j@statworks.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.