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Disparities in defining disparities: statistical conceptual frameworks.

Naihua Duan1, Xiao-Li Meng, Julia Y Lin

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This study introduces two statistical frameworks for measuring healthcare disparity, emphasizing causal relationships between patient factors. The marginal disparity framework is shown to be more robust against issues like Simpson's paradox than the conditional approach.

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Area of Science:

  • Health Services Research
  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • The Institute of Medicine (IOM) definition of healthcare disparity requires careful implementation.
  • Existing disparity measures may be flawed due to unaddressed causal relationships between covariates.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose statistically rigorous frameworks for defining healthcare disparity measures.
  • To explicitly outline the causal assumptions necessary for scientifically defensible disparity metrics.

Main Methods:

  • Development of two causal inference frameworks: conditional disparity and marginal disparity.
  • Theoretical analysis of conditions under which these measures are equivalent.
  • Empirical application using data from the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Survey.

Main Results:

  • Conditional disparity assumes allowable covariates influence non-allowable ones; marginal disparity assumes the reverse.
  • The two measures can differ substantially, and conditional disparity can be misled by Simpson's paradox.
  • The marginal disparity framework correctly addressed Simpson's paradox in the example.

Conclusions:

  • Scientifically defensible disparity measures require explicit consideration of covariate causality direction.
  • The marginal disparity framework offers a more reliable approach for measuring healthcare disparities.
  • These frameworks aid in making clinically and policy-relevant disparity assessments.