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Racial disparities in self-rated health at older ages and the dangers of obfuscating neighborhood effects research — authors' reply [to: invited commentary: Subjective health and the dangers of absent individual effects and crude contextual proxies of causal mechanisms; by Stephen M Golant]
Author(s)	Kathleen A Cagney, Christopher R Browning, Ming Wen
Journal title	Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 4, July 2005
Pages	pp S193-S194
Source	http://www.geron.org
Keywords	Ethnic groups ; Health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Economic status [elderly] ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Social surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	In his commentary (pp S191-S192), Stephen Golant queried whether in their original article, the authors made sufficient use of the data at their disposal in linking neighbourhood characteristics to residents' health variables. In their response, the authors discuss the role of omitted individual-level measures, particularly related to psychological indices. They address concerns about the sophistication of neighbourhood-level measures; and they review the relevance of these comments for racial disparities to health. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-051219203 A
Classmark	TK: CC: F: F:W: RH: 3F: 7T
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