Hawes Hall, Classroom 102, Harvard Business School
Evaluating Effects of Multilevel Interventions on Disparity in Health and Healthcare Decisions
In this talk I will discuss an analytic approach for assessing effects of multilevel interventions on disparity in health outcomes and health-related decision outcomes (i.e., a treatment decision made by a healthcare provider). I will outline three common challenges that are encountered in interventional health disparity research: (1) effect scale and interpretation (2) choice of covariates for adjustment and its impact on effect magnitude (3) methodological challenges involved with studying decision-based outcomes. Using the potential outcomes framework, I will discuss novel total effects relevant to disparity in health status and novel direct effects relevant to disparity in healthcare decisions and their estimation by weighting and g-computation procedures. The talk will be motivated by a multilevel healthcare intervention designed to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in hypertension control.
Reading Group: 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM EST
Background Readings:
- Evaluating Effects of Multilevel Interventions on Disparities in Health and Healthcare (Sign up to receive the PDF)
- Meaningful Causal Decompositions in Health Equity Research: Definition, Identification, and Estimation Through a Weighting Framework
- The Target Study: A Conceptual Model and Framework for Measuring Disparity
Speaker:
- John Jackson, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health