Analysis of Health Surveys

Analysis of Health Surveys
Author: Edward L. Korn
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2011-01-25
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1118030869

How to apply statistical methods to survey data--a guide toeffective analysis of health surveys. With large health surveys becoming increasingly available forpublic use, researchers with little experience in survey methodsare often faced with analyzing data from surveys to addressscientific and programmatic questions. This practical book providesstatistical techniques for use in survey analysis, making healthsurveys accessible to statisticians, biostatisticians,epidemiologists, and health researchers. The authors clearlyexplain the theory and methods of survey analysis along withreal-world applications. They draw on their work at the NationalInstitutes of Health as well as up-to-date information from acrossthe literature to present: * The sampling background necessary to understand health surveys. * The application of such techniques as t-tests, linear regression,logistic regression, and survival analysis to survey data. * The use of sample weights in survey data analysis. * Dealing with complications in variance estimation in large healthsurveys. * Applications involving cross-sectional, longitudinal, andmultiple cross-sectional surveys, and the use of surveys to performpopulation- based case-control analyses. * Guidance on the correct use of statistical methods found insoftware packages. * Extensive bibliography.

Designing and Conducting Health Surveys

Designing and Conducting Health Surveys
Author: Lu Ann Aday
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2011-01-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1118046676

Designing and Conducting Health Surveys is written for students, teachers, researchers, and anyone who conducts health surveys. This third edition of the standard reference in the field draws heavily on the most recent methodological research on survey design and the rich storehouse of insights and implications provided by cognitive research on question and questionnaire design in particular. This important resource presents a total survey error framework that is a useful compass for charting the dangerous waters between systematic and random errors that inevitably accompany the survey design enterprise. In addition, three new studies based on national, international, and state and local surveys—the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, California Health Interview Survey, and National Dental Malpractice Survey—are detailed that illustrate the range of design alternatives available at each stage of developing a survey and provide a sound basis for choosing among them.

Handbook of Health Survey Methods

Handbook of Health Survey Methods
Author: Timothy P. Johnson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 840
Release: 2014-10-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1118594746

A comprehensive guidebook to the current methodologies and practices used in health surveys A unique and self-contained resource, Handbook of Health Survey Methods presents techniques necessary for confronting challenges that are specific to health survey research. The handbook guides readers through the development of sample designs, data collection procedures, and analytic methods for studies aimed at gathering health information on general and targeted populations. The book is organized into five well-defined sections: Design and Sampling Issues, Measurement Issues, Field Issues, Health Surveys of Special Populations, and Data Management and Analysis. Maintaining an easy-to-follow format, each chapter begins with an introduction, followed by an overview of the main concepts, theories, and applications associated with each topic. Finally, each chapter provides connections to relevant online resources for additional study and reference. The Handbook of Health Survey Methods features: 29 methodological chapters written by highly qualified experts in academia, research, and industry A treatment of the best statistical practices and specific methodologies for collecting data from special populations such as sexual minorities, persons with disabilities, patients, and practitioners Discussions on issues specific to health research including developing physical health and mental health measures, collecting information on sensitive topics, sampling for clinical trials, collecting biospecimens, working with proxy respondents, and linking health data to administrative and other external data sources Numerous real-world examples from the latest research in the fields of public health, biomedicine, and health psychology Handbook of Health Survey Methods is an ideal reference for academics, researchers, and practitioners who apply survey methods and analyze data in the fields of biomedicine, public health, epidemiology, and biostatistics. The handbook is also a useful supplement for upper-undergraduate and graduate-level courses on survey methodology.

Survey Methods for Medical and Health Professions Education - E-Book

Survey Methods for Medical and Health Professions Education - E-Book
Author: Andrew W. Phillips
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2021-04-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323695922

Offering a practical, six-step approach to effective survey design, delivery, and analysis, Survey Methods for Medical and Health Professions Education provides a real-world framework for successful research and evaluation using surveys. Focused on medical and other health professional education research, this unique text features quick-reference checklists, high-yield explanations, and case examples throughout, making it both a foundational reference and a go-to resource for all health professions educators and researchers who use surveys. - Provides a detailed and practical discussion of the steps in survey methodology, along with just enough theory to inform common decisions. - Includes numerous real-world examples, both simple and complex, covering the wide range of problems researchers are likely to face. - Addresses issues of survey fatigue and addresses the challenge of how to get "good data." - Features "Voice of Experience" boxes—pearls based on authors' actual experiences. - Concludes each chapter with a checklist so readers can quickly ensure they have covered every necessary step of survey design and implementation. - Contains a convenient glossary of terms. - Offers guidance from expert international contributors in medical and health professions research. - Summarizes the most current standards and understanding of survey research so that experienced and novice researchers alike can directly apply content to improve research rigor.

Oral Health Surveys

Oral Health Surveys
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1977
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Public Health Research Methods

Public Health Research Methods
Author: Greg Guest
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2015
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1452241333

Providing a comprehensive foundation for planning, executing, and monitoring public health research of all types, this book goes beyond traditional epidemiologic research designs to cover technology-based approaches emerging in the new public health landscape.

Toward a National Health Care Survey

Toward a National Health Care Survey
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 1992-02-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309046920

The nation's health care system has changed dramatically and the country is debating further significant changes. Comprehensive information is needed to guide policymakers in understanding and evaluating the current problems and in formulating federal health care policy. This book contains an evaluation of the plan developed by the National Center for Health Statistics for restructuring its existing provider surveys. It identifies current and future data needed by researchers and policymakers to assess the effect of changes in financing, organization, and delivery of health care on access, quality, costs, and outcomes of care and determines the extent to which the design and content of the proposed survey can meet these data needs. The book goes beyond a simple review and recommends a design framework to develop a coordinated and integrated data system to gather information about people and their illness over time and to link this information to costs and health care outcomes.

Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data

Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data
Author: Adam Wagstaff
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2007-11-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0821369342

Have gaps in health outcomes between the poor and better off grown? Are they larger in one country than another? Are health sector subsidies more equally distributed in some countries than others? Are health care payments more progressive in one health care financing system than another? What are catastrophic payments and how can they be measured? How far do health care payments impoverish households? Answering questions such as these requires quantitative analysis. This in turn depends on a clear understanding of how to measure key variables in the analysis, such as health outcomes, health expenditures, need, and living standards. It also requires set quantitative methods for measuring inequality and inequity, progressivity, catastrophic expenditures, poverty impact, and so on. This book provides an overview of the key issues that arise in the measurement of health variables and living standards, outlines and explains essential tools and methods for distributional analysis, and, using worked examples, shows how these tools and methods can be applied in the health sector. The book seeks to provide the reader with both a solid grasp of the principles underpinning distributional analysis, while at the same time offering hands-on guidance on how to move from principles to practice.

SF-36 Health Survey

SF-36 Health Survey
Author: John E. Ware
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1997
Genre:
ISBN:

This manual is the most complete source of information on the SF-36 Health Survey, including: the history and development of the SF-36; how to administer questionnaires, and the construction and scoring of the eight-scale SF-36 health profile. The manual is also the most complete source of general U.S. population norms and other interpretation guidelines for the SF-36 profile. The SF-36 is referred to as a generic measure because it asseses health concepts that represent basic human values that are relevant to everyone's functional status and well-being. Such measures are called generic because they are universally valued, and because they are not age, disease, or treatment specific. Generic health measures assess health-related quality of life outcomes, namely, those known to be most directly affected by disease and treatment. Today's oppertunities to measure health status routinely demand the best compromise between traditionally defined psychometric elegance and the new standard of feasibility and practicality. The SF-36 attempts to achieve reductions in respondent burden withour sacrificing measurement precision below the critical level.

Handbook of EHealth Evaluation

Handbook of EHealth Evaluation
Author: Francis Yin Yee Lau
Publisher:
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2016-11
Genre: Medical care
ISBN: 9781550586015

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