Monitoring Socioeconomic Disparities in Death: Comparing Individual-Level Education and Area-Based Socioeconomic Measures

On the measurement of inequalities in health

1991 • 1,659 citations

Overcoming the absence of socioeconomic data in medical records: validation and application of a census-based methodology.

1992 • 1,653 citations

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

2002 • 1,143 citations

US mortality by economic, demographic, and social characteristics: the National Longitudinal Mortality Study.

1995 • 853 citations

Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Monitoring Socioeconomic Gradients in Health: A Comparison of Area-Based Socioeconomic Measures—The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project

2003 • 693 citations

Age standardization of death rates: implementation of the year 2000 standard.

1998 • 460 citations

Social Class Inequality in Mortality From 1921 to 1972 in England and Wales

1985 • 416 citations

Persistent area socioeconomic disparities in U.S. incidence of cervical cancer, mortality, stage, and survival, 1975–2000

2004 • 327 citations

Methodological issues in measuring health disparities.

2005 • 267 citations

Socioeconomic Risk Factors for Breast Cancer

2004 • 261 citations

Comparing Individual- and Area-based Socioeconomic Measures for the Surveillance of Health Disparities: A Multilevel Analysis of Massachusetts Births, 1989–1991

2006 • 245 citations

On the wrong side of the tracts? Evaluating the accuracy of geocoding in public health research

2001 • 227 citations

Racial Disparities in Context: A Multilevel Analysis of Neighborhood Variations in Poverty and Excess Mortality Among Black Populations in Massachusetts

2005 • 162 citations

Individual- and Area-Level Socioeconomic Status Variables as Predictors of Mortality in a Cohort of 179,383 Persons

2004 • 151 citations

Validity of Education Information on the Death Certificate

1996 • 121 citations

Can we monitor socioeconomic inequalities in health? A survey of U.S. health departments' data collection and reporting practices.

2000 • 116 citations

Changing to the 2000 Standard Million: Are Declining Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health Real Progress or Statistical Illusion?

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The 1989 revision of the U.S. Standard Certificates and Reports.

1991 • 64 citations