Journal Club

Health Disparities Overview (Lee and Lorena)

References, Notes, Q&A

• The theory and practice of accessing inequity?

• Who is the audience of data science of health inequity?

• The main journal in the field https://hsr.org?

• This month's issue of Nature is titled "The Science of Inequality", now seems a great time to be getting involved in health disparities research! https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/606/issues/7915 . They also did a series on health equity in May: https://www.nature.com/collections/fhfjjghfbg

• https://www.prisonpolicy.org, https://www.prisonpolicy.org/data

• https://data.cdc.gov/browse?q=prison

• https://data.un.org

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling, https://www.gapminder.org

• Epidemiology 101 - what are confounding factors, https://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/mph-modules/bs/bs704-ep713_confounding-em/bs704-ep713_confounding-em_print.html, https://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/mph-modules/bs/bs704-ep713_confounding-em/BS704-EP713_Confounding-EM2.html

• Regression - example: Extension of the Peters–Belson method to estimate health disparities among multiple groups using logistic regression with survey data

• Matching - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MatchIt/vignettes/matching-methods.html

• Book: Political Determinants of Health

• Observable Notebook to play around with the health disparities exposure diagrams: https://observablehq.com/@siliconjazz/health-disparities-exposure

• Paper: An atlas of health inequalities and health disparities research: “How is this all getting done in silos, and why?”

• Paper: How do we assess a racial disparity in health? Distribution, interaction, and interpretation in epidemiological studies

• Paper: Methodological Approaches to Understanding Causes of Health Disparities

• Slides: by Lorena, by Lee