RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Deriving relative risks from aggregate data. 1. Theory.
JF Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
JO J Epidemiol Community Health
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 333
OP 335
DO 10.1136/jech.42.4.333
VO 42
IS 4
A1 T Norström
YR 1988
UL http://jech.bmj.com/content/42/4/333.abstract
AB Sociological macro analyses of the association between risk factors and mortality can be seen as a valuable supplement to epidemiological micro studies. However, sociologists and epidemiologists typically employ different measures of association and this hampers strict comparisons of findings. This study presents a synthetic approach relying on both micro and macro data. In Part 1, the mathematical relations between the relative risk and the attributable fraction on the one hand, and the regression coefficient on the other are derived in order to make cross level comparisons possible. Part 2 provides an empirical illustration of the approach.