RCMAR Measurement & Methods Homepages

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CADC (Univ. of California, San Francisco) Measurement Core Website Recommends and provides information on measures (many in English and Spanish) of several determinants of health and health disparities including socioeconomic status, interpersonal processes of care, perceived discrimination, and culture in the medical encounter. Provides annotated bibliographies on methodological topics including recruitment and measurement issues in diverse populations, developing and/or translating surveys, and locating appropriate measures for use in health disparities research.

CHIME (Univ. California, Los Angeles) Measurement Core Website Contains presentations on methods, several instruments in English and Spanish (including the SF-36, Patient's Views on Health Care, and Kidney Disease Quality of Life), materials on qualitative methods, and extensive links to methods resources in English and Spanish.

MCUAAAR (Univ. of Michigan/Wayne State) Measurement Core Website Contains information about upcoming seminars and workshops.

NERC (Univ. of Colorado Health Sciences) Measurement Core Website American Indian and Alaska Native Methods and Measurement Resources. Contains Quality of Life and Health-related Quality of Life Measures, Mental Health Measures for depression english and non-english, reviews and summaries of measures, racial and ethnic identity, religiosity, edipemiological, measure development issues, methods of scale construction and other references.

Penn Minority Aging Research for Community Health, Measurement Core Website coming soon!