Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Epidemiol Rev. 2009;31:1-6. doi: 10.1093/epirev/mxp010. Epub 2009 Oct 11.
In this introduction to volume 31 of Epidemiologic Reviews, the author traces the history of health disparities research in epidemiology and situates the 10 review articles comprising this edition within this history. With the aid of a conceptual model describing the key determinants of health disparities, he offers several suggestions for improving future epidemiologic research on health disparities.
在这篇第三十一卷《流行病学评论》的引言中，作者追溯了流行病学中健康差异研究的历史，并将本版包含的 10 篇综述文章置于这一历史背景下。借助描述健康差异关键决定因素的概念模型，作者为改进未来关于健康差异的流行病学研究提出了几点建议。
