Section outline

  • Lecture: Multi-level etiologies of health disparities, Part 5: Social and health policy

    Faculty:  Maria Glymour

    Location:     Mission Hall 1406

    • Session Slides:

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

    • Osypuk Policies File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Ludwig NbhdsObesityDiabetes File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Int. J. Epidemiol.-2014-Rehkopf-1884-94 (1) File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Optional Reading:

      Glymour.  Policies as Tools for Research and Translation in Social Epidemiology.  Chapter 12 in Social Epidemiology, 2nd edn.  Berkman, Kawachi, and Glymour eds. Oxford Press 2014.

    • Assignment:

      Please post in the forum or email to Maria if you are not able to post. 

      •Identify a policy you think may have important health implications.
      •Describe why an evaluation of that policy is informative (primarily about the policy, or primarily a test of hypothesized mediators?)
      •Specify the outcomes and populations you think most responsive or least responsive to the policy.
      •Propose a study design to evaluate the policy
      –Describe biggest challenge to implementing and drawing inferences
    • Optional Reading: WHO Report on SDOH Exec Summary File
    • LecturexPolicyv5 File