Using ecological socioeconomic position (SEP) measures to deal with sample bias introduced by incomplete individual-level measures: inequalities in breast cancer stage at diagnosis as an example

• Main Authors: Sébastien Lamy (Author), Florence Molinié (Author), Laetitia Daubisse-Marliac (Author), Anne Cowppli-Bony (Author), Stéphanie Ayrault-Piault (Author), Evelyne Fournier (Author), Anne-Sophie Woronoff (Author), Cyrille Delpierre (Author), Pascale Grosclaude (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background When studying the influence of socioeconomic position (SEP) on health from data where individual-level SEP measures may be missing, ecological measures of SEP may prove helpful. In this paper, we illustrate the best use of ecological-level measures of SEP to deal with incomplete...