Public Health Research Methods by Guest, Greg -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Half Title Title Copyright Brief Contents Detailed Contents Preface Acknowledgments 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 Studies 8 Designing Randomized Controlled Trials

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 Analysis: 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 (GIS) in Public Health 21 Public Health 2.0: Fresh Approaches to Old Problems

PART VI: APPLYING RESEARCH FINDINGS

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