Modeling epilepsy disparities among ethnic groups in Philadelphia, PA
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Modeling epilepsy disparities among ethnic groups in Philadelphia, PA.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defined epilepsy as an emerging public health issue in a recent report and emphasized the importance of epilepsy studies in minorities and people of low socioeconomic status. Previous research has suggested that the incidence rate for epilepsy is positively associated with various measures of social and economic disadvantage. In response, we utiliz...
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عنوان ژورنال: Statistics in Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0277-6715,1097-0258
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3261