Associations between individual and geographic characteristics with trajectory types were assessed with multinomial logistic regression. Care trajectories were mapped over a two-year period following a new diagnosis and analysed using state sequence and clustering methods. We used the TorSaDe (The Care Trajectories-Enriched Data) cohort, which links Canadian Community Health Survey respondents to health administrative data. Our objectives are to establish a typology of care trajectories following a new diagnosis, and to explore social determinants of trajectories.

As a primary care sensitive condition (PCSC), this association could be related to differential access to primary care. Cornwell stops at every station along what is arguably the most important pathway for gaining insight into the social world with elegant methodological contributions that should change how we do social science.Social inequalities in complications associated with diabetes mellitus persist. 'Social Sequence Analysis beautifully links two of the major revolutionary developments in social science over the past three decades - networks and sequences - to make sense of the deeply ordered nature of social life. Benjamin Cornwell has written a much-needed book that should prove invaluable to social scientists interested in sequence analysis.'Laurent Lesnard, CNRS Professor of Sociology, Sciences Po, France It provides useful guidance into the different families of statistical methods adapted to sequences that emerged in the social sciences a couple of decades ago. 'Social Sequence Analysis: Methods and Applications offers the first comprehensive look at sequence analysis for the social sciences. Keohane Professor of Sociology, Duke University Well written, clearly argued, and filled with practical guides, this is a methods text for all thinking social scientists.'James Moody, Robert O. This book provides the tools needed to think about social sequences in a grounded, pragmatic fashion in a way that opens new doors for social theory. Taking up the charge first raised by Andrew Abbott many years ago, this book provides a careful and detailed examination of the history and theoretical grounding of sequence methods in the social sciences. 'Social Sequence Analysis is a must-read book for anyone interested in the temporal unfolding of social events. A unique reference book for a new generation of social scientists, this book will aid demographers who study life-course trajectories and family histories, sociologists who study career paths or work/family schedules, communication scholars and micro-sociologists who study conversation, interaction structures and small-group dynamics, as well as social epidemiologists. Social Sequence Analysis aims to bring together both foundational and recent theoretical and methodological work on social sequences from the last thirty years.

Social sequence analysis is not limited by content or time scale and can be used in many different fields, including sociology, communication, information science and psychology. Social sequence analysis includes a diverse and rapidly growing body of methods that social scientists have developed to help study complex ordered social processes, including chains of transitions, trajectories and other ordered phenomena. Description Product filter button Description