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Population health research : linking theory and methods

Title
Population health research : linking theory and methods / edited by Kathryn Dean.
Publication
London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 1993.

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Additional Authors
Dean, Kathryn.
Description
ix, 246 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
Aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the methodology of population health research and an assessment of underlying theories of health and behaviour. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the contributors take a critical overview of the scientific issues involved.
Subject
  • Public health > Research > Methodology
  • World health
  • Statistics > Methodology
  • Data Collection
  • Global Health
  • Models, Statistical
  • Santé publique
  • Méthodologie
  • Recherche
  • Statistiques sanitaires
  • World health
  • Public health > Research > Methodology
  • Forschung
  • Gesundheit
  • Weltbevölkerung
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Medische sociologie
  • Methodologie
Genre/Form
Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Integrating theory and methods in population health research / Kathryn Dean -- A theoretical basis for research on health / Matilda White Riley -- Age, period and cohort analyses of health-related behaviour / Fredric D. Wolinsky -- Intraindividual variability : methodological issues for population health research / John R. Nesselroade and Scott L. Hershberger -- A methodological approach for assessing the stability of variables used in population research on health / David V. McQueen -- Validation of index scales for analysis of survey data : the symptom index / Svend Kreiner -- Some aspects of statistical models / David Cox -- Graphical interaction models : a new approach for statistical modelling / Joe Whittaker -- Association structures with few variables : characteristics and examples / Nanny Wermuth -- Specification and estimation of latent variable models / Gerhard Arminger -- Researching population health : new directions / Kathryn Dean, Svend Kreiner and David V. McQueen.
ISBN
  • 080398751X
  • 9780803987517
  • 0803987528
  • 9780803987524
LCCN
  • 93084880
  • 34522190
OCLC
  • ocm30917935
  • 30917935
  • SCSB-8791201
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library