Quantifying Inequality in Underreported Medical Conditions. (arXiv:2110.04133v3 [cs.CY] UPDATED)

Estimating the prevalence of a medical condition, or the proportion of the
population in which it occurs, is a fundamental problem in healthcare and
public health. Accurate estimates of the relative prevalence across groups --
capturing, for example, that a condition affects women more frequently than men
-- facilitate effective and equitable health policy which prioritizes groups
who are disproportionately affected by a condition. However, it is difficult to
estimate relative prevalence when a medical condition is underreported. In this …

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