The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
Methodological concerns in the ecological study of tuberculosis mortality in São Paulo
By Xiang Ma and Qingqing Shan.
Abstract
We read with interest the population-level study by Alves and colleagues on tuberculosis mortality in São Paulo.1 We commend the authors for their sophisticated analytical approach. However, we wish to raise several methodological concerns.
Keywords
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- tuberculosis mortality
- ecological fallacy
- São Paulo
- Open access
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