Summary
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Conducting Health Research: Principles, Process, and Methods presents an integrated and practical introduction to the principles and strategies for planning, implementing, reporting, and assessing health sciences research. Comprehensive in its breadth and depth, with an accessible writing style, this text prepares students in public health and related fields to be adept researchers and consumers of health research. Through real-world examples and step-by-step guidance, Frederick J. Kviz provides students with the skills they need to: identify and evaluate research strengths and limitations as practitioners; to actually perform the various core aspects of research; and to choose among alternative methods when making decisions about health practice, policy, and future research needs.
Secondary Analysis and Existing Data
Secondary Analysis and Existing Data
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Learning Objectives
After studying Chapter 14, the reader should be able to:
- Decide when it is appropriate to conduct a secondary data analysis
- Implement the secondary data analysis process
- Explore and evaluate sources for conducting a secondary data analysis
- Understand and assess strategies for synthesizing results from multiple studies
Overview
Conducting research does not necessarily require collecting data. Valuable research may be done using existing data that are available from an increasing number and range of sources. The main use of existing data for research is secondary data analysis, which involves analyzing research data previously collected and analyzed by others for another purpose. Other types of existing data, such as administrative records and government statistics, which were not necessarily collected for research ...
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