Week 8

8. (10/24) Continuation of 7b + Placing individuals in a multileveled context

Idea: Different or even contradictory associations can be detected at different levels of aggregation (e.g., individual, region, nation), but not all influences can be assigned to properties of the individual—Membership in a larger aggregation can influence outcomes even after conditioning on the attributes of the individuals.

Cases: Ecological and atomistic fallacies, Neighborhood effects, Childhood maltreatment, Effects of inequality, Obesity, Heart disease

Readings: Freedman 2001, Diez-Roux 2002a, b, Coulton 1999, Korbin 2000, Marcelli 2005, 2006, Balfour 2002, Lawlor 2005

Citation: cchewadmin. (2008, July 29). Week 8. Retrieved November 06, 2014, from UMass Boston OpenCourseware Web site: http://ocw.umb.edu/public-policy/epidemiological-thinking-for-non-specialists/schedule-links/week-8.