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American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 170(10):1195-1196; doi:10.1093/aje/kwp330
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Towards Reducing Disparities in Disparities Research

Carol J. Rowland Hogue

Women's and Children's Center, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322

(e-mail: chogue@emory.edu)

Received for publication August 31, 2009. Accepted for publication September 15, 2009.

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Volume 31 of Epidemiologic Reviews, which accompanies this issue of the Journal, focuses on health disparities. Research on "differences"—that is, comparing groups of people who differ with respect to a health condition or risk factor—is the core of epidemiologic research. "Disparities" research is the field of epidemiology that seeks to understand and eliminate health differences derived from systematic, persistent discrimination against disadvantaged social groups (1). In this issue of Epidemiologic Reviews, James makes the case that "the current global attention on health disparities reduction is arguably best understood as the legacy of an implicit human rights-inspired paradigm shift in epidemiologic research that began in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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