Public Health Research Methods

✍ Scribed by Greg Guest & Emily E. Namey

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 828
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Public Health Research Methods is a comprehensive collection of research methods used in the field of public health. This text is about providing researchers, and future researchers, with an up-to-date and comprehensive set of tools to investigate public health issues and problems, to ultimately better inform public health policy and practice. The contents of this book go beyond traditional epidemiologic approaches and cover the various research methods and technologies that are emerging in the new public health landscape.

✦ Table of Contents

Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Detailed Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Editors
About the Contributors
1 Introduction to Public Health Research Methods
Part I Planning and Preparing for Research
2 Designing Research
3 Research Ethics and Working with Institutional Review Boards
4 Community Engagement in Public Health Research
Part II Traditional Epidemiologic Methods and Designs
5 Public Health Surveillance and Research: From Data to Action
6 Outbreak Investigation
7 Cohort and Case-Control Studies1
8 Designing Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)
Part III Structural and Operational Research
9 Using Secondary Data
10 Economics of Population Health
11 Health Services Research
Part IV Behavioral and Social Science Research
12 Survey Design and Implementation
13 Scale Development and Validation
14 Social Network Analysis1: Methods and Applications in Public Health
15 Qualitative Research Methods
16 Randomized Controlled Trials for Psychosocial Interventions
Part V Cross-Cutting Methods and Approaches
17 Sampling: The Foundation of Good Research
18 Statistical Methods in Public Health Research
19 Mixed Methods Research
20 Geographic Information Systems in Public Health
21 Public Health 2.0: Fresh Approaches to Old Problems
Part VI Applying Research Findings
22 Enhancing Research Utilization
23 Implementation Science: Identifying the Path from Innovation to Impact
Appendix
References
References
Author Index
Index

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