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Objective: To examine the frequency of reporting of absolute and relative effect ineasures in health inequalities research. Design: Structured review of selected general medical and public health journals: Data sources: 344 articles published during 2009 in American foumol of Epidemiology, American Journal of? Public Heolth, BMJ, Epidemiology, Internationai Journal of Epidemiology. AAMA, fournal of Epidemiology and Community Heaith, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Social Science ond Medicine. Main outcome measures: Frequency and proportion of studies reporting absolute effect measures, relative effect measures, or both in abstract and full text; availability of absolute niss in studies reporting only relative effect measures. Results: 40%(138/344) of articles reported a measure of effect in the abstract; a mong these, 85\% (122/138) reported only a relative measure, 9% (13/138) reported only an absolute measure; and 2X (3/138) reported both. 75%(258/344) of all articles reported only relative measures in the full text; among these, 46% (119/258) contained no information on absolute baseline risks that would facilitate calculation of abvolute effect measures. 18% (61/344) of all articles reported only absolute measures in the full text, and 7%(25/344) reported both absolute and relative measures. These results were consistent across journals, eaposures, and outcomes: (A) What is the difference between an absolute measure and a relative effect measure? [2 points] (B) Why do you think the authors felt it was important to examine reporting both measures in the scientitic Hiterature? [2 points]