American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on May 17, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 163(12):1083; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj178
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Response to Invited Commentary |
Wight et al. Respond to "Considerations about Multilevel Thinking"
1 Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2 Division of Geriatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Correspondence to Dr. Richard G. Wight, UCLA School of Public Health, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095 (e-mail: rwight@ucla.edu).
Received for publication March 20, 2006. Accepted for publication March 23, 2006.
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Galea and Ahern (1
) have provided an insightful commentary on our article (2
), raising several noteworthy observations pertaining to the current state of and future directions for multilevel epidemiologic research. We concur that theory-driven multilevel studies are needed, along with explication of the mechanisms that