In this workshop, we will present an introduction to the following topics pertaining to measurement in studies of health disparities:

1. Issues of the conceptual and psychometric adequacy and equivalence of self-report measures in studies that compare health levels across diverse groups, or that compare models of determinants of health,
   
   
2. Approaches for reviewing the adequacy and equivalence of existing measures in diverse population groups for possible use in a specific study, including a discussion of issues of translation, readability, and working with low-literacy populations,
   
   
3. The use of qualitative methods to pretest potential measures in diverse groups such as behavioral coding, cognitive testing, and random probes, and
   
   
4. An overview of classical test theory methods for evaluating the psychometric adequacy of measures within a diverse group, and for comparing the psychometric characteristics across diverse groups.
   
   

Examples from our collective work will be provided, and implications for research will be discussed.