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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on October 15, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2008 168(10):1214-1216; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn317
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2008. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: "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, 1992–2004"

Raj S. Bhopal

Public Health Sciences Section, Division of Community Health Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH89AG, United Kingdom

(e-mail: raj.bhopal@ed.ac.uk)

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The appropriate measurement of ethnic disparities/inequalities in health and disease is crucially important, not just for monitoring but also for choosing priorities for interventions. I would like to add to the debate that Harper et al. (1) and Messer (2) have started, not least to offer a European perspective.

Our modern-day, multiethnic world has set lofty goals of racial equality and—even more importantly, because they are not merely aspirations—ethical and just policies, that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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