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The Tobacco Research Network on Disparities (TReND), which is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and the American Legacy Foundation, is pleased to announce the release of Conceptual and Methodological Issues for Research on Tobacco-Related Health Disparities, a supplemental journal issue published in October 2007 by Addiction. The editors of this special issue include Drs. Richard Clayton, Linda Alexander, and Brian Flaherty. The papers represent multidisciplinary collaborations among health disparities and tobacco control researchers.
Conceptual and Methodological Issues for Research on Tobacco-Related Health Disparities was initiated to address some of the methodological, conceptual, and practical challenges that impact our ability to reduce tobacco-related health disparities. In these papers, the authors:
- critically examine transdisciplinary and integrated models for investigating tobacco-related health disparities;
- raise questions about the validity, reliability, and relevance of constructs, measures, and methods for low socioeconomic status and/or minority racial/ethnic groups and;
- challenge our assumptions about the relevance of current policy and other intervention approaches to tobacco control among groups who experience and suffer from tobacco-related health disparities.
We invite you to review these papers and encourage you to build on this research. These papers can be accessed at: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/add/102/s2.
A hardcopy of the journal can be ordered by calling the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237) or visiting NCI's Publications Locator Web site. Please reference publication #T102.
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