Disability and COVID-19 Study

Sep-21 : In this lesson, we will study county-level association of disability and COVID-19.

Reading

1. Chakraborty, J. 2021. Social inequities in the distribution of COVID-19: An intra-categorical analysis of people with disabilities in the U.S. Disability and Health Journal 14 (1):101007. DOI: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2020.101007.

Reading Activity

• Use Zotero to import the article and take notes, or print and use highlighters. Highlight the following with different colors for each of:
  • Concepts being measured / tested
  • Information about data sources
  • Information about procedures
  • Results, both intermediate and final, that can be used to check the accuracy of a reproduction
• Use Draw.io to draw a workflow diagram representing your understanding of the research design, or draw neatly by hand or with a tablet.

Lecture and Discussion

For this lecture, please read Chakraborty’s (2021) paper thoroughly with the intention of understanding the research methodology. Some of the individual research techniques will be new to you, so try to understand them as well as possible through context clues: what are the inputs, parameters, and outputs of the new techniques?

Technical resources

Kulldorff spatial scan statistics

• SaTScan software for spatial scan statistics, including a user guide
• SpatialEpi Package R package for spatial epidemiology, and its GitHub Repository and reference manual
• R Data and Methods for Spatial Epidemiology: the SpatialEpi Package

Relative Risk

• CDC DSEPD Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Lesson 3: Measures of Risk

Generalized Estimating Equations

• University of Virginia Library GEE Introduction
• gee Package and reference manual
• The R Package geepack for Generalized Estimating Equations academic paper by the package authors, Halekoh, Højsgaard, and Yan

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