Enrique,

I would begin with contacting the authors if you haven't already and ask them to share the details of their methodology and ask them if they know of alternative data sources where you might find SOME of the variables that they used. I don't know what your funding is like, but I don't imagine you have oodles of dollars to throw into administering your own large-scale survey.

I don't know where you are in the world (New Mexico?), but I know that Canada offers researchers access to microdata files from some of their large-scale surveys (most useful for this type of research would be the Canadian Community Health Survey). I don't know if some of these variables can be derived from American data sources. I would imagine that BRFSS data may be helpful for the research you're proposing to do, if you are not out to collect your own data. I don't, however, know how far down the geographic hierarchy you can drill down with BRFSS.

Just some initial thoughts.

Virginia McFarland


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Subject: Re: [SDOH] Research/Study Guidelines

I'm looking for general guidelines on social determinants research. There were very clear guidelines for work on attempts for behavioral change.

My main interests are in policy, environmental and health promotion interventions.

What I'm looking at for a possible thesis is replicating Bhatvia's minimum wage health impact assessment (http://www.sfphes.org/work_living_wage.htm) and just wonder if there is a collection of guidelines somewhere like there is for service delivery or clinical trials.

Sorry if this is still vague, but its something that I'm trying to learn. And to change the work we do here we need to have good data analysis that is local, because people can always claim that something doesn't apply here.

Thanks,


Enrique Cardiel
Urban Health Extension Coordinator
505-925-7393
"Social determinants of health are life-enhancing resources, such as food supply, housing, economic and social relationships, transportation, education, and health care, whose distribution across populations effectively determines length and quality of life." - CDC




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