Description:
A health disparity refers to a higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or mortality experienced by one group relative to others attributable to multiple factors including socioeconomic status, environmental factors, insufficient access to health care, individual risk factors and behaviors and inequalities in education.
Review Quotes:
"Rao's book provides useful technical guidance, along with important substantive context that will be helpful to statisticians who seek to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams or who are pursuing health disparities statistical methods research...Overall, I enjoyed reading this book and expect to use it as a reference moving forward. I was pleased by Rao's inclusion of a variety of methods given the multiple data types encountered in disparity research, including surveys. This enhances the book's unique contribution. Rao took on a broad and ambitious topic with this book, so there will inevitably be topics missing from here in the view of some readers. Course instructors and other readers should be prepared to augment the information provided with supplementary materials. An instructor with expertise in statistical research aimed toward identifying health disparities should have no problem doing so."
- Susan M. Paddock, Journal of the American Statistical Association, May 2024