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Methods in Social Epidemiology / Edition 2
- ISBN-10:
- 111850559X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781118505595
- Pub. Date:
- 03/20/2017
- Publisher:
- Wiley
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Overview
Methods in Social Epidemiology provides students and professionals with a comprehensive reference for studying the social distribution and social determinants of health. Covering the theory, models, and methods used to measure and analyze these phenomena, this book serves as both an introduction to the field and a practical manual for data collection and analysis. This new second edition has been updated to reflect the field's tremendous growth in recent years, including advancements in statistical modeling and study designs. New chapters delve into genetic methods, structural cofounding, selection bias, network methods, and more, including new discussion on qualitative data collection with disadvantaged populations.
Social epidemiology studies the way society's innumerable social interactions, both past and present, yields different exposures and health outcomes between individuals within populations. This book provides a thorough, detailed overview of the field, with expert guidance toward the real-world methods that fuel the latest advances.
- Identify, measure, and track health patterns in the population
- Discover how poverty, race, and socioeconomic factors become risk factors for disease
- Learn qualitative data collection techniques and methods of statistical analysis
- Examine up-to-date models, theory, and frameworks in the social epidemiology sphere
As the field continues to evolve, researchers continue to identify new disease-specific risk factors and learn more about how the social system promotes and maintains well-known exposure disparities. New technology in data science and genomics allows for more rigorous investigation and analysis, while the general thinking in the field has become more targeted and attentive to causal inference and core assumptions behind effect identification. It's an exciting time to be a part of the field, and Methods in Social Epidemiology provides a solid reference for any student, researcher, or faculty in public health.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781118505595 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication date: | 03/20/2017 |
| Series: | Public Health/Epidemiology and Biostatistics , #17 |
| Edition description: | 2nd Revised ed. |
| Pages: | 608 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.30(d) |
About the Author
Jay S. Kaufman, PhD,is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Disparities in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University, and Visiting Professor in the School of Public Health of the University of Chile. He is an editor at the journal "Epidemiology" and an associate editor at "American Journal of Epidemiology", and has been awarded the Rothman Epidemiology Prize (1998), a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research (2006-2008), a Fulbright Fellowship (2007) and the Wade Hampton Frost Lectureship (2014).
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Table of Contents
Tables and Figures xiAbout the Editors xvii
About the Authors xix
Preface xxvii
1 Introduction: Advancing Methods in Social Epidemiology 1 Jay S. Kaufman and J. Michael Oakes
Part One: Measures and Measurement 21
2 The Measurement of Socioeconomic Status 23 J. Michael Oakes and Kate E. Andrade
3 Measuring and Analyzing “Race,” Racism, and Racial Discrimination 43 Saffron Karlsen and James Yzet Nazroo
4 Measuring Poverty 69 David M. Betson and Jennifer L. Warlick
5 Health Inequalities: Measurement and Decomposition 91 Sam Harper and John Lynch
6 A Conceptual Framework for Measuring Segregation and Its Association with Population Outcomes 132 Sean F. Reardon
7 Measures of Residential Community Contexts 158 Patricia O’Campo and Margaret O’Brien Caughy
Part Two: Design and Analysis 177
8 Community-Based Participatory Research: Rationale and Relevance for Social Epidemiology 179 Paula M. Lantz, Barbara A. Israel, Amy J. Schulz, and Angela G. Reyes
9 Social Network Analysis for Epidemiology 212 David A. Shoham and Lynne C. Messer
10 Fieldwork with In-Depth Interviews: How to Get Strangers in the City to Tell You Their Stories 239 Melody L. Boyd and Stefanie DeLuca
11 Experimental Social Epidemiology: Controlled Community Trials 254 Peter J. Hannan
12 Propensity Score Matching for Social Epidemiology 283 J. Michael Oakes and Pamela Jo Johnson
13 Longitudinal Approaches to Social Epidemiologic Research 308 Magdalena Cerdá and Katherine M. Keyes
14 Fixed Effects and Difference-in-Differences 341 Erin C. Strumpf, Sam Harper, and Jay S. Kaufman
15 Fixed Versus Random Effects Models for Multilevel and Longitudinal Data 369 Ashley Schempf Hirai and Jay S. Kaufman
16 Mediation Analysis in Social Epidemiology 398 Arijit Nandi and Tyler J. VanderWeele
17 A Roadmap for Estimating and Interpreting Population Intervention Parameters 432 Jennifer Ahern and Alan E. Hubbard
18 Using Causal Diagrams to Understand Common Problems in Social Epidemiology 458 M. Maria Glymour
19 Natural Experiments and Instrumental Variables Analyses in Social Epidemiology 493 M. Maria Glymour, Stefan Walter, and Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen
Index 539
What People are Saying About This
"Publication of this highly informative textbook clearly reflects the coming of age of many social epidemiology methods, the importance of which rests on their potential contribution to significantly improving the effectiveness of the population-based approach to prevention. This book should be of great interest not only to more advanced epidemiology students but also to epidemiologists in general, particularly those concerned with health policy and the translation of epidemiologic findings into public health practice. The cause of achieving a ‘more complete’ epidemiology envisaged by the editors has been significantly advanced by this excellent textbook."
—Moyses Szklo, professor of epidemiology and editor-in-chief, American Journal of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
"Social epidemiology is a comparatively new field of inquiry that seeks to describe and explain the social and geographic distribution of health and of the determinants of health. This book considers the major methodological challenges facing this important field. Its chapters, written by experts in a variety of disciplines, are most often authoritative, typically provocative, and often debatable, but always worth reading."
—Stephen W. Raudenbush, Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
"The roadmap for a new generation of social epidemiologists. The publication of this treatise is a significant event in the history of the discipline."
—Ichiro Kawachi, professor of social epidemiology, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard University
"Methods in Social Epidemiology not only illuminates the difficult questions that future generations of social epidemiologists must ask, it also identifies the paths they must boldly travel in the pursuit of answers, if this exciting interdisciplinary science is to realize its full potential. This beautifully edited volume appears at just the right moment to exert a profound influence on the field."
—Sherman A. James, Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy Studies, professor of Community and Family Medicine, professor of African-American Studies, Duke University