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Implicit value judgments in the measurement of health inequalitiesSam Harper
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1A2, Canada
Milbank Q 88:4-29. 2010....
Do medical marijuana laws increase marijuana use? Replication study and extensionSam Harper
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Canada
Ann Epidemiol 22:207-12. 2012....- Global socioeconomic inequalities in tobacco use: internationally comparable estimates from the World Health SurveysSam Harper
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Room 34B, Montreal, QC, Canada
Cancer Causes Control 23:11-25. 2012..To produce internationally comparable estimates of socioeconomic differences in tobacco exposure within low and middle-income countries... - Validation of population-based disease simulation models: a review of concepts and methodsJacek A Kopec
School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
BMC Public Health 10:710. 2010..The purpose of this article is to review the principles and methods for validation of population-based disease simulation models... - Trends in area-socioeconomic and race-ethnic disparities in breast cancer incidence, stage at diagnosis, screening, mortality, and survival among women ages 50 years and over (1987-2005)Sam Harper
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Room 34, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1A2
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:121-31. 2009..Previous research has often focused on disparities between particular groups, but few studies have summarized disparities across multiple subgroups defined by race-ethnic and socioeconomic position... - An overview of methods for monitoring social disparities in cancer with an example using trends in lung cancer incidence by area-socioeconomic position and race-ethnicity, 1992-2004Sam Harper
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Am J Epidemiol 167:889-99. 2008..A suite of indicators is needed to provide a clear picture of health disparity change... 
Commentary: Using innovative inequality measures in epidemiologySam Harper
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Int J Epidemiol 36:926-8. 2007- Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in adult health behaviors among U.S. states, 1990-2004Sam Harper
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Public Health Rep 122:177-89. 2007..The purpose of this study was to measure state trends in educational inequalities in smoking, binge alcohol use, physical inactivity, obesity, and seatbelt use... - Social determinants and the decline of cardiovascular diseases: understanding the linksSam Harper
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Annu Rev Public Health 32:39-69. 2011.... - Commentary: what explains widening geographic differences in life expectancy in New Zealand?Sam Harper
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
Int J Epidemiol 35:604-6. 2006 - Would achieving healthy people 2010's targets reduce both population levels and social disparities in heart disease?Beatriz E Alvarado
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 2:598-606. 2009..However, the potential impact of achieving those risk factor reductions on both population levels and social disparities in CHD has not been quantified... - The changing gender differences in life expectancy in Korea 1970-2005Seungmi Yang
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Soc Sci Med 75:1280-7. 2012..Instead, liver disease, hypertension-related diseases, and transport accidents were major contributing causes of death to the narrowing of gender differentials in life expectancy in Korea... - Educational inequalities in preterm and term small-for-gestational-age birth over timeNathalie Auger
Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, 190 boulevard Crémazie Est, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ann Epidemiol 22:160-7. 2012..We evaluated educational inequalities in preterm and term SGA birth over time, accounting for potential bias at preterm gestational ages... - Increasing educational inequality in preterm birth in Quebec, Canada, 1981-2006Nathalie Auger
Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, 190 boulevard Crémazie Est, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Epidemiol Community Health 65:1091-6. 2011..Few studies have evaluated the relationship between preterm birth (PTB) and maternal education over time. We sought to determine whether educational inequalities in PTB have increased in Québec, Canada... - Causes of widening life expectancy inequalities in Québec, Canada, 1989-2004Jessica Adam-Smith
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC
Can J Public Health 102:375-81. 2011..An analysis of which causes of death, in which age groups, are implicated in this trend is necessary to understand it and provide clear targets for intervention... - Burden of disease, health indicators and challenges for epidemiology in North AmericaAmy Toporowski
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Int J Epidemiol 41:540-56. 2012..This report covers the health status and epidemiological capacity in the North American region (USA and Canada)... - Life expectancy gap between the Francophone majority and Anglophone minority of a Canadian populationNathalie Auger
Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada
Eur J Epidemiol 27:27-38. 2012..Differentials in life expectancy favouring Anglophones decreased over time, but varied across areas of Québec. Tobacco-related causes accounted for the majority of the current life expectancy gap... - Maternal education and stillbirth: estimating gestational-age-specific and cause-specific associationsNathalie Auger
Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epidemiology 23:247-54. 2012.... - Relative and absolute disparities in preterm birth related to neighborhood educationNathalie Auger
Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, Montreal, Canada
Ann Epidemiol 21:481-8. 2011..To evaluate relative and absolute relationships between preterm birth (PTB) and neighborhood education over time... - Understanding the rapid increase in life expectancy in South KoreaSeungmi Yang
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Am J Public Health 100:896-903. 2010..We assessed life expectancy increases in the past several decades in South Korea by age and specific causes of death... - Trends in the black-white life expectancy gap in the United States, 1983-2003Sam Harper
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
JAMA 297:1224-32. 2007..Since the early 1980s, the black-white gap in life expectancy at birth increased sharply and subsequently declined, but the causes of these changes have not been investigated... - Decomposing income-related inequality in cervical screening in 67 countriesBrittany McKinnon
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Purvis Hall, Montreal, QC, H3A 1A2, Canada
Int J Public Health 56:139-52. 2011..We sought to identify important determinants contributing to inequality in cervical screening rates... - Francophone and Anglophone perinatal health: temporal and regional inequalities in a Canadian setting, 1981-2008Nathalie Auger
Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, 190, boulevard Crémazie Est, Montreal, QC H2P 1E2, Canada
Int J Public Health 57:925-34. 2012..We evaluated temporal and regional inequalities in adverse birth outcomes between Anglophones and Francophones of a Canadian province... - Use of relative and absolute effect measures in reporting health inequalities: structured reviewNicholas B King
Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, 3647 Peel St, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1X1
BMJ 345:e5774. 2012..To examine the frequency of reporting of absolute and relative effect measures in health inequalities research... - Explaining the social gradient in coronary heart disease: comparing relative and absolute risk approachesJohn Lynch
Department Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Canada QC H3A 1A2
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:436-41. 2006.... - Relative or absolute standards for child poverty: a state-level analysis of infant and child mortalityMarianne M Hillemeier
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Am J Public Health 93:652-7. 2003..The purpose of the present study was to compare the associations of state-referenced and federal poverty measures with states' infant and child mortality rates... - Commentary: Plugging leaks and repelling boarders--where to next for the SS income inequality?John Lynch
Department of Epidemiology and Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48104, USA
Int J Epidemiol 32:1029-36; discussion 1037-40. 2003 - Is income inequality a determinant of population health? Part 1. A systematic reviewJohn Lynch
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48104 2548, USA
Milbank Q 82:5-99. 2004.... - Is income inequality a determinant of population health? Part 2. U.S. National and regional trends in income inequality and age- and cause-specific mortalityJohn Lynch
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, 1214 South University Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 2548, USA
Milbank Q 82:355-400. 2004.... - Life course socioeconomic conditions and adult psychosocial functioningSam Harper
Department of Epidemiology and Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-2029, USA
Int J Epidemiol 31:395-403. 2002..In addition to the impact of adult socioeconomic position, some aspects of poor psychosocial functioning in adulthood may also have socioeconomic roots early in life... - Associations between income inequality and mortality among US states: the importance of time period and source of income dataJohn Lynch
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 1214 South University, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 2548, USA
Am J Public Health 95:1424-30. 2005..We used census data to examine associations between income inequality and mortality among US states for each decade from 1949 to 1999 and tax return income data to estimate associations for 1989... - Hurling alone? How social capital failed to save the Irish from cardiovascular disease in the United StatesC Cecily Kelleher
National Nutrition Surveillance Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland
Am J Public Health 94:2162-9. 2004..We performed a historical review of cardiovascular risk profiles of Irish immigrants to the United States, 1850-1970, in regard to lifestyle, socio-economic circumstances, and social capital... - Preventing coronary heart diseaseRod Jackson
BMJ 332:617-8. 2006 - Socioeconomic differentials in cause-specific mortality among South Korean adolescentsHong Jun Cho
Department of Family Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 388 1 Poongnap dong Songpa gu, Seoul 138 736, Korea
Int J Epidemiol 36:50-7. 2007..Parental income information was linked to national death certificate data... - Measuring contextual characteristics for community healthMarianne M Hillemeier
Department of Health Policy and Administration, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802-6500, USA
Health Serv Res 38:1645-717. 2003..We suggest several guiding principles useful for understanding how aspects of contextual characteristics can affect health and health disparities... - Did clean water reduce black-white mortality inequalities in the United States? Water, race, and diseaseSam Harper
Int J Epidemiol 36:248-57. 2007 - Highly active antiretroviral therapy and socioeconomic inequalities in AIDS mortality in SpainSam Harper
Eur J Public Health 17:231. 2007 - Contextual effect of income inequality on birth outcomesMary Huynh
Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, Rm 6112, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Int J Epidemiol 34:888-95. 2005..In this analysis, we examined the relationship between income inequality and preterm birth (PTB) and post-neonatal mortality (PNM) to explore two potential mechanisms-the proposed psychosocial stress and neo-material pathways...