Public Health Research Methods
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Public Health Research Methods

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eBook - ePub

Public Health Research Methods

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Detailed Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. About the Editors
  9. About the Contributors
  10. 1 Introduction to Public Health Research Methods
  11. Part I Planning and Preparing for Research
  12. 2 Designing Research
  13. 3 Research Ethics and Working with Institutional Review Boards
  14. 4 Community Engagement in Public Health Research
  15. Part II Traditional Epidemiologic Methods and Designs
  16. 5 Public Health Surveillance and Research: From Data to Action
  17. 6 Outbreak Investigation
  18. 7 Cohort and Case-Control Studies1
  19. 8 Designing Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)
  20. Part III Structural and Operational Research
  21. 9 Using Secondary Data
  22. 10 Economics of Population Health
  23. 11 Health Services Research
  24. Part IV Behavioral and Social Science Research
  25. 12 Survey Design and Implementation
  26. 13 Scale Development and Validation
  27. 14 Social Network Analysis1: Methods and Applications in Public Health
  28. 15 Qualitative Research Methods
  29. 16 Randomized Controlled Trials for Psychosocial Interventions
  30. Part V Cross-Cutting Methods and Approaches
  31. 17 Sampling: The Foundation of Good Research
  32. 18 Statistical Methods in Public Health Research
  33. 19 Mixed Methods Research
  34. 20 Geographic Information Systems in Public Health
  35. 21 Public Health 2.0: Fresh Approaches to Old Problems
  36. Part VI Applying Research Findings
  37. 22 Enhancing Research Utilization
  38. 23 Implementation Science: Identifying the Path from Innovation to Impact
  39. Appendix
  40. References
  41. References
  42. Author Index
  43. Index