ArticleSociological methods & research2025
The Target Study: A Conceptual Model and Framework for Measuring Disparity.
Article in Sociological methods & research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Applying the Target Study Conceptual Model to Measure Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension Treatment Intensification.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Causal Inference in Health Disparities Research.Annual review of public health · 2026Review
- Challenges in estimating effects of hypothetical interventions on resources patterned by structural racism: an example in a rural North Carolina Medicaid population.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Exacerbation of racial disparities in COVID-19 outcomes by Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among nursing home residents.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Responding to the increase in substance use, HIV, HCV, and overdose in New England (RISE-NE): Protocol for a prospective cohort study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Developing inclusive, antiracist approaches to public health research: Guidelines for action.Journal of public health research · 2025Article
- A Calibrated Sensitivity Analysis for Weighted Causal Decompositions.Statistics in medicine · 2025Article
- A Review of the Causal Decomposition Framework for Modeling Interventions that Reduce Disparities.Current epidemiology reports · 2025Article
- Evaluating Effects of Multilevel Interventions on Disparity in Health and Healthcare Decisions.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Article
- Geographic Variation in Racial Disparities in Receipt of High-Dose Influenza Vaccine Among US Older Adults.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Selection Bias in Health Research: Quantifying, Eliminating, or Exacerbating Health Disparities?Current epidemiology reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
We present a conceptual model to measure disparity-the target study-where social groups may be similarly situated (i.e., balanced) on allowable covariates. Our model, based on a sampling design, does not intervene to assign social group membership or alter allowable covariates. To address non-random sample selection, we extend our model to generalize or transport disparity or to assess disparity after an intervention on eligibility-related variables that eliminates forms of collider-stratification. To avoid bias from differential timing of enrollment, we aggregate time-specific study results by balancing calendar time of enrollment across social groups. To provide a framework for emulating our model, we discuss study designs, data structures, and G-computation and weighting estimators. We compare our sampling-based model to prominent decomposition-based models used in healthcare and algorithmic fairness. We provide R code for all estimators and apply our methods to measure health system disparities in hypertension control using electronic medical records.
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