[BOOK][B] Differential mortality in the United States: A study in socioeconomic epidemiology

EM Kitagawa, PM Hauser - 1973 - degruyter.com
EM Kitagawa, PM Hauser
1973degruyter.com
This volume in the monograph series of the American Public Health Association (APHA)
brings together the key findings of three research undertakings of the Population Research
Center at the University of Chicago. One is the Matched Records Study funded by the
National Institutes of Health, which involved matching of death certificates for a sample of
persons who died in the United States between May and August 1960 to the 1960
Population Census schedules. The second is the series of investigations of differential …
This volume in the monograph series of the American Public Health Association (APHA) brings together the key findings of three research undertakings of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago. One is the Matched Records Study funded by the National Institutes of Health, which involved matching of death certificates for a sample of persons who died in the United States between May and August 1960 to the 1960 Population Census schedules. The second is the series of investigations of differential mortality in the Chicago area from 1930 to 1960 based on the allocation of deaths to census tract of residence of decedents and using the characteristics of the population in the census tract as socioeconomic controls. The third involved the analysis of special tabulations of 1959-61 deaths from all causes, which were compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics for the APHA monograph series.
The 1960 Matched Records Study was conceived and designed by a combination of University of Chicago and federal government personnel. It was funded by a Research Grant (RG-7134) from the National Institutes of Health to the Population Research Center. Lillian Guralnick of the National Center for Health Statistics and Charles Nam of the Bureau of the Census collaborated with the authors in the design of the study and the collection and processing of the basic data. They had earlier carried out a pretest in Memphis which paved the way for the Matched Records Study. Lillian Guralnick served as a consultant throughout the study with special reference to problems relating to the death records, and Charles Nam served as a consultant in respect to the problems involved in the matching operation at the Bureau of the Census. An informal Advisory Committee was also an important resource in the launching of the investigation. It included Dr. Iwao Moriyama of the National Center for Health Statistics, Dr. Harold Dorn of the National Institutes of Health, and Mr. Mortimer Spiegelman of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, who was subsequently the General Editor of the APHA monograph series. The basic data for the analysis of trends in socioeconomic differentials in the Chicago area were derived from two Ph. D. dissertations and two research projects carried out at the Population Research Center, one of which was funded by a grant from the US Public
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