Commentary: Advancing neighbourhood-effects research—selection, inferential support, and structural confounding

Open Access

23 March 2006

journal article
editorial
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology

Vol. 35 (3) , 643-647
https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyl054

Abstract

Everyone interested in how residential contexts independently shape health risks (i.e. neighbourhood effects) should study the new paper by Chaix, Rosvall, Lynch, and Merlo (herein after CRLM).¹ This paper is one of the best to date on a topic fundamental to social epidemiology and related subdisciplines. I intend to include the paper in my doctoral-level seminars in social epidemiology and community trials and herewith encourage others to share it widely.

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NEIGHBORHOOD

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