Adjusting Expected Mortality Rates Using Information From a Control Population: An Example Using Socioeconomic Status
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Confounding by socioeconomic position remains after adjusting for neighbourhood deprivation: an example using smoking and mortality.
A rea based measures of socioeconomic deprivation are often used as proxies for personal socioeconomic position. But sometimes people of high socioeconomic position live in deprived areas, and vice versa. 2 This means that adjusting for area deprivation (only) may leave residual confounding for any exposure-outcome association in which socioeconomic position is strongly implicated. The purpose ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwx303