Research methods for public health / Stuart McClean, Isabelle Bray, Nick de Viggiani, Emma Bird and Paul Pilkington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McClean, Stuart, author.

Bray, Isabelle, author.

De Viggiani, Nick, author.

Bird, Emma (Lecturer in Public Health), author.

Pilkington, Paul (Public Health Specialist), author.

Contributor:

School of Medicine Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Research--Methodology.

Public health.

Public Health--methods.

Medical Subjects:

Public Health--methods.

Physical Description:

xxii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London: Sage, 2020.

Contents:

Part 1 Quantitative Methods for Public Health p. 1

1 Epidemiology p. 3

2 Sampling p. 19

3 Collecting Quantitative Data p. 32

4 Quantitative Data Analysis p. 47

5 Quality and Rigour in Quantitative Research p. 69

Part 2 Qualitative Methods for Public Health p. 85

6 Methodological Approaches and Basic Principles p. 87

7 Accessing and Selecting Cases in Qualitative Research p. 102

8 Collecting Qualitative Data p. 119

9 Qualitative Data Analysis p. 134

10 Quality and Rigour in Qualitative Research p. 148

Part 3 Mixing it Up: Combining Methods and Evidence Synthesis in Public Health p. 161

11 Mixed Methods Research and Evaluation Design p. 163

12 Evidence Synthesis Approaches: Systematic Reviews p. 179

13 Evidence Synthesis Approaches: Meta-ethnography and Realist Synthesis p. 199

Part 4 Applying Research to Public Health Practice p. 217

14 The Ethics of Public Health Research p. 219

15 Writing up, Dissemination and Publication p. 232.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the School of Medicine Library Fund.

ISBN:

1526430010

9781526430014

1526430002

9781526430007

OCLC:

1083138747