From: Nancy Krieger
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Subject: [spiritof1848] Announcing: The
Public Health Disparities Geocoding
Monograph! (freee, on-line)

ANNOUNCING:
THE PUBLIC HEALTH DISPARITIES GEOCODING
PROJECT MONOGRAPH

Available at:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/thegeocodingproject


** A new tool for monitoring
socioeconomic inequalities in health **


We are excited to announce the
availability of a free, on-line
monograph sharing the concepts,
methods, and US census tract poverty
data for improving monitoring of - and
research on - social disparities in
health.

The monograph draws on the work of The
Public Health Disparities
Geocoding Project, based at the Harvard
School of Public Health. This project
was designed to ascertain which
area-based socioeconomic measures
(ABSMs), at which geographic level
(census block group, census tract, or
ZIP Code), would be most apt for
monitoring US socioeconomic
inequalities in the health.

Based on analyses for outcomes ranging
from low birth weight to
cancer incidence to all-cause and
cause-specific mortality, we found that
the census tract poverty measure best
met our criteria for a valid,
robust, easy to construct, and easy to
interpret measure suitable for
monitoring and analyzing social
disparities in health.

In this monograph, we explain the
concepts guiding our project and
the methods we used, plus provide a
data set and instructions for learning
how to generate incidence rates
stratified by the census tract
poverty measure. Also included, at no
cost, are: (1) census tract poverty data
(categorical & continuous) for all US
census tracts included in the
1980, 1990, and 2000 census, ready for
linkage to any geocoded data set, and
(2) .pdf files of our scientific
publications.

We invite you to check out our
monograph; see:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/thegeocodingproject

Also available for downloading, via the
monograph, at NO cost, are .pdf files
of our scientific, peer-reviewed
publications:

--Krieger N, Chen JT, Waterman PD,
Rehkopf DH, Subramanian SV. Painting
a truer picture of US socioeconomic and
racial/ethnic health inequalities: the
Public Health Disparities Geocoding
Project. Am J Public Health (in press;
.pdf will be available when article is
published in February 2005).

--Krieger N, Chen JT, Waterman PD,
Rehkopf DH, Subramanian
SV. Race/ethnicity, gender, and
monitoring socioeconomic gradients in
health: a comparison of area-based
socioeconomic measures-The Public Health
Disparities Geocoding Project. Am J Public Health 2003; 93:1655-1671.

--Krieger N, Waterman PD, Chen JT,
Soobader MJ, Subramanian S.
Monitoring Socioeconomic Inequalities
in Sexually Transmitted
Infections, Tuberculosis, and Violence:
Geocoding and Choice of
Area-Based Socioeconomic Measures--The
Public Health Disparities Geocoding
Project (US). Public Health Rep 2003;
118:240-260.

--Krieger N, Chen JT, Waterman PD,
Soobader MJ, Subramanian SV, Carson
R. Choosing area based socioeconomic
measures to monitor social
inequalities in low birth weight and
childhood lead poisoning: The Public
Health Disparities Geocoding Project
(US). J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;
57:186-199.

--Krieger N, Chen JT, Waterman PD,
Soobader MJ, Subramanian SV, Carson
R. Geocoding and monitoring of US
socioeconomic inequalities in mortality
and cancer incidence: does the choice
of area-based measure and
geographic level matter?: The Public
Health Disparities Geocoding Project.
Am J Epidemiol 2002; 156:471-482.

--Krieger N, Waterman P, Chen JT,
Soobader MJ, Subramanian SV, Carson
R. Zip code caveat: bias due to
spatiotemporal mismatches between zip
codes and US census-defined geographic
areas--The Public Health
Disparities Geocoding Project. Am J
Public Health 2002; 92:1100-1102.

--Krieger N, Waterman P, Lemieux K,
Zierler S, Hogan JW. On the wrong
side of the tracts? Evaluating the
accuracy of geocoding in public
health research. Am J Public Health
2001; 91:1114-1116.

--Krieger N, Zierler S, Hogan JW,
Waterman P, Chen J, Lemieux K,
Gjelsvik A.  Geocoding and measurement
of neighborhood socioeconomic position.
In: Kawachi I, Berkman LF (eds).
Neighborhoods and Health. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2003; 147-178.

--Subramanian SV, Chen JT, Rehkopf DH,
Waterman PD, Krieger N. Neighborhood
disparities in context: multilevel
analysis of census tract variations in
black excess mortality and poverty. Am
J Public Health (in press; .pdf file
will be available as soon as article is
published in fall 2004).

**************************************************************************
Nancy Krieger, PhD
office: 617-432-1571 Associate
Professor fax: 617-432-3123 Dept of
Society, Human Development and
Health Harvard School of Public Health
(Kresge 717) 677 Huntington Avenue
email: [log in to unmask]
Boston, MA 02115  USA         web:
 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/NancyKrieger.html

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