The ecological fallacy
The ecological fallacy
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生态谬误
DOI：
10.1136/bmj.d4670
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发表时间：
2011
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P. Sedgwick
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作者：
P. Sedgwick
研究人员探讨了儿童受伤发病率与社会经济剥夺之间的关系。对英格兰北部特伦特地区862个选区进行了生态横断面研究对于每个选区，研究人员获得了1992年至1997年期间所有受伤儿童的住院率。包括特伦特地区的所有医院，并汇总了每个选举病房的数据，无论儿童住在哪家医院。得到了与每个选区相关的汤森得分。这个分数评估了家庭的社会经济剥夺，包括就业状况、过度拥挤、汽车所有权和所有者职业。
Researchers explored the relation between morbidity from injury in children and socioeconomic deprivation. An ecological cross sectional study of 862 electoral wards in the Trent region of northern England was performed.1 For each electoral ward the researchers obtained rates of admission of children to hospital for all injuries between 1992 and 1997. All hospitals in the Trent region were included, and data were aggregated for each electoral ward, regardless of which hospital children were admitted to. The Townsend score associated with each electoral ward was obtained. This score assesses socioeconomic deprivation in families and includes measurement of employment status, overcrowding, car ownership, and owner occupation …