American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 154, No. 4 : 305-306
Copyright © 2001 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Kaufman and Cooper Respond to "'Race,' Racism, and the Practice of Epidemiology"
1 Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC.
2 Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
3 Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL.
We appreciate very much Dr. Jones' invited commentary, which broadens the scope of the discussion considerably (1
). Our essay sought merely to evaluate the technical limitations of common quantitative epidemiologic methods when race/ethnicity is used as a variable in etiologic research and to make recommendations concerning which analytical designs might produce a plausibly valid and interpretable effect estimate (2). We concluded that several research designs or analytical strategies by which researchers often seek to understand the etiology of racial/ethnic health disparities are inherently inadequate and have little hope of
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