Advancing Research on Racial–Ethnic Health Disparities: Improving Measurement Equivalence in Studies with Diverse Samples
Author
Landrine, Hope; Corral, Irma
Abstract
To conduct meaningful, epidemiologic research on racial–ethnic health disparities, racial–ethnic samples must be rendered equivalent on other social status and contextual variables via statistical controls of those extraneous factors. The racial–ethnic groups must also be equally familiar with and have similar responses to the methods and measures used to collect health data, must have equal opportunity to participate in the research, and must be equally representative of their respective populations. In the absence of such measurement equivalence, studies of racial–ethnic health disparities are confounded by a plethora of unmeasured, uncontrolled correlates of race–ethnicity. Those correlates render the samples, methods, and measures incomparable across racial–ethnic groups, and diminish the ability to attribute health differences discovered to race–ethnicity vs. to its correlates. This paper reviews the non-equivalent yet normative samples, methodologies and measures used in epidemiologic studies of racial–ethnic health disparities, and provides concrete suggestions for improving sample, method, and scalar measurement equivalence.
Date
2014-12
Citation:
APA:
Landrine, Hope, & Corral, Irma. (December 2014).
Advancing Research on Racial–Ethnic Health Disparities: Improving Measurement Equivalence in Studies with Diverse Samples.
Frontiers in Public Health,
2(),
1-
22. Retrieved from
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5802
MLA:
Landrine, Hope, and Corral, Irma.
"Advancing Research on Racial–Ethnic Health Disparities: Improving Measurement Equivalence in Studies with Diverse Samples". Frontiers in Public Health.
2:. (1-22),
December 2014.
June 29, 2024.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5802.
Chicago:
Landrine, Hope and Corral, Irma,
"Advancing Research on Racial–Ethnic Health Disparities: Improving Measurement Equivalence in Studies with Diverse Samples," Frontiers in Public Health 2, no.
(December 2014),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5802 (accessed
June 29, 2024).
AMA:
Landrine, Hope, Corral, Irma.
Advancing Research on Racial–Ethnic Health Disparities: Improving Measurement Equivalence in Studies with Diverse Samples. Frontiers in Public Health.
December 2014;
2():
1-22.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5802. Accessed
June 29, 2024.
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