Lauren Eyler and Catherine Juillard Develop Algorithm to Facilitate Health Disparities Research
Center for Global Surgical Studies - - March 20, 2017
UCSF General Surgery Resident, Lauren Eyler, MD, MPH, in collaboration with UC Berkeley's Alan Hubbard, PhD and one of the Center's Co-Directors, Catherine Juillard, MD, MPH, worked together to develop an algorithm that facilitates health disparities research in the context of low- and middle-income countries. The algorithm can define population-specific models of economic status using variables from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) household assets data. The use of DHS data makes it easy to track the economic status of injured patients and to compare the economic status of injured [...]