Vulnerability-Based Spatial Sampling Stratification for the National Children’s Study, Worcester County, Massachusetts: Capturing Health-Relevant Environmental and Sociodemographic Variability | Zendy

Timothy J. Downs | Zendy; Yelena OgnevaHimmelberger | Zendy; Onesky Aupont | Zendy; Yangyang Wang | Zendy; Ann Raj | Zendy; Paula Zimmerman | Zendy; Robert Goble | Zendy; Octavia Taylor | Zendy; Linda Churchill | Zendy; Celeste A. Lemay | Zendy; Thomas McLaughlin | Zendy; Marianne E. Felice | Zendy

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Vulnerability-Based Spatial Sampling Stratification for the National Children’s Study, Worcester County, Massachusetts: Capturing Health-Relevant Environmental and Sociodemographic Variability

Author(s) -

Timothy J. Downs,

Yelena OgnevaHimmelberger,

Onesky Aupont,

Yangyang Wang,

Ann Raj,

Paula Zimmerman,

Robert Goble,

Octavia Taylor,

Linda Churchill,

Celeste A. Lemay,

Thomas McLaughlin,

Marianne E. Felice

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.0901315

Subject(s) - geography , proxy (statistics) , population , environmental health , demography , statistics , medicine , sociology , mathematics

The National Children's Study is the most ambitious study ever attempted in the United States to assess how environmental factors impact child health and development. It aims to follow 100,000 children from gestation until 21 years of age. Success requires breaking new interdisciplinary ground, starting with how to select the sample of > 1,000 children in each of 105 study sites; no standardized protocol exists for stratification of the target population by factoring in the diverse environments it inhabits. Worcester County, Massachusetts, like other sites, stratifies according to local conditions and local knowledge, subject to probability sampling rules.

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