James P. Scanlan, Attorney at Law

Presentations I

• "Measures of Health Inequalities that are Unaffected by the Prevalence of an Outcome," to be presented at the 16th Nordic Demographic Symposium, Helsinki, Finland, June 5-7, 2008.

• "Measuring Health Disparities," presented at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Center for Health Disparities, 2008 Health Disparities Conference, Topeka, Kansas, Apr. 1, 2008

• "Can We Actually Measure Health Disparities?" presented at the 7th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 17-18, 2008 (invited paper)

• "Measurement Problems in the National Healthcare Disparities Report," American Public Health Association 135th Annual Meeting & Exposition, Washington, DC, Nov 3-7, 3007

• "Methodological Issues in Comparing the Sizes of Differences Between Rates of Experiencing or Avoiding an Outcome in Different Settings," presented at the British Society for Population Studies 2007 Annual Conference, St. Andrews , Scotland, Sept. 11-13, 2007

• "Exploring Methods to Measure Health Inequalities that are Unaffected by Changes in the Prevalence of an Outcome," presented at Social, Cultural and Economic Determinants of Health: International Perspectives for Global Action (1st  Conference of the Journal Public Health, Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health), Lisbon, Portugal, May 9-11, 2007

• "Understanding Variations in Group Differences That are the Results of Variation in the Prevalence of an Outcome," presented at the American Public Health Association 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition, Boston, MA, Nov. 4-8, 2006.

• "The Misinterpretation of Health Inequalities in the United Kingdom," presented at the British Society for Populations Studies 2006 Annual Conference, Southampton, England, Sept. 18-20, 2006

• "Measuring Health Disparities," Roundtable lunch at 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, Institute for Mathematical Statistics, and Canadian Statistical Society. Seattle, Washington, Aug. 6-10, 2006.

• "The Misinterpretation of Health Inequalities in Nordic Countries," presented at the 5th Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference, Esbjerg, Denmark, June 15-17, 2006

• "Measuring Health Inequalities," presented at the 5th International Conference on Health Economics, Management and Policy, Athens, Greece, June 5-7, 2006

• "Understanding Increasing Racial Differences in Mortality (and Declining Differences in Survival)," presented at the First Annual Health Disparities Conference, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, Mar. 19, 2006