£143.00
Publication Date:
17 Apr 2014
Publisher:
SAGE Publications Inc
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 7 - 9 May 2024
Description
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.
Contents
1: Introduction to Public Health Research Methods - Greg Guest
PART I: Planning and Preparing for Research
2: Designing Research - Heidi Reynolds, Greg Guest
3. Research Ethics and Working with Institutional Review Boards - Amy Corneli, David Borasky
4. Cultivating Stakeholder Involvement in Public Health Research - Dazon Dixon Diallo, Paula Frew
In Focus: Community-Based Participatory Research - Karen Hacker and Greg Guest
PART II. TRADITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS & DESIGNS
5. Public Health Surveillance: From Data to Action - Donna Stroup, Steven Thacker
6. Outbreak Investigation - Douglas Hamilton
7. Cohort and Case Control Studies - Lee Warner, Deborah Dee
8. Designing Randomized Controlled Trials - Theresa Gamble, Danielle Haley, Niru Sista, Raymond Buck
PART III. STRUCTURAL AND OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
9. Using Secondary Data - Sarah Boslaugh
10. Economics of Population Health - Emma McIntosh, Cam Donaldson, Lyndal Bond, Kenny Lawson
In Focus: Cost Analysis for Interventions - Rick Homan
11. Health Services Research - Heidi Reynolds
12. Survey Design and Implementation - Jeanne Bertolli, Kathy Hageman, Travis Sanchez, Andrea Kim
13. Scale Development and Validation - Glenn Gamst, Lawrence S. Meyers, Holly McClain Burke, A. J. Guarino
14. Social Network Analysis. Methods and Applications in Public Health - Elizabeth Costenbader, Thomas Valente
15. Qualitative Research Methods - Emily Namey, Robert Trotter II
16. Randomized Controlled Trials for Psychosocial Interventions - Phyllis Solomon, Mary Cavanaugh
PART IV. CROSS-CUTTING METHODS AND APPROACHES
17. Sampling: The Foundation of Good Research - Johnnie Daniel
18. Statistical Methods in Public Health Research - Mark Weaver
19. Mixed Methods Research - Greg Guest, Paul Fleming
In Focus: Using Vignettes in Public Health Research - Paul Fleming, Michael Stalker
20. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Public Health - Candace Nykiforuk
21. Public Health 2.0. Fresh Approaches to Old Problems - Hans Ossebaard and Lisette van Gemert-Pijnen
In Focus: Mobile and Digital Data Collection in the Field - Mitesh Thakkar, Nikhil Wilmink, Rachna Nag Chowdhuri, Sruthi Chandrasekaran
PART V. APPLYING RESEARCH FINDINGS
22. Enhancing Research Utilization - Jeffery Peterson, Angie Funaiole
23. Implementation Science. Identifying the Path from Innovation to Impact - Temina Madon
APPENDIX 1. Theories and Models in Public Health Research
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