Methods for Community Public Health Research

Integrated and Engaged Approaches

Jessica Griffin Burke, Steven M. Albert (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

277 Seiten

2014
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-9877-8 (ISBN)

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This is the first text to advance beyond traditional methods of research about promoting community health by presenting a new paradigm for emerging methodologies that integrate qualitative and quantitative research methods. Written for graduate students of public health and practising researchers alike, the book highlights new technologies and methodologies that facilitate a more fluid use of integrated methods and interdisciplinary expertise. This new paradigm stresses the effects of ""place"" - socioeconomic disadvantage, access to health care, quality of housing - as having great relevance for health outcomes. Use of these new research methods will provide greater insight into how and why contextual and community factors impact health and for developing more effective intervention programmes.

The text focuses on new methods for inferring meaning from both the quantitative information that characterises communities and the words community members use in speaking about their lives. It pays particular attention to data collection and analysis and clearly demonstrates the intricacies of using spatial, systems and modelling analysis for community public health. The first section on inferring meaning from numbers includes spatial analysis, multilevel modelling, agent-based models and realist reviews. Section two, about inferring meaning from words, addresses system dynamics, concept mapping, visual voices and media analysis. Chapters illustrate applications of new methodologies to pressing health issues and provide Web links to such content as interactive mapping and videos of agent-based models.

Jessica Griffin Burke, PhD, MHS, is Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Dr. Burke successfully uses a transdisciplinary approach to her work and has over a decade of experiencing nurturing long-term partnerships with local and national academic and community colleagues. Her 2005 ""Qualitative Health Research"" article was the first to introduce public health researchers to concept mapping as a participatory mixed methods approach for generating hypotheses and developing theory regarding complex issues. Dr. Burke has co-authored more than fifty articles and book chapters in behavioural and community health sciences. Steven M. Albert, PhD, MS, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences (BCHS), Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. He leads the public health and ageing effort in the Department and co-directs the BCHS Evaluation Institute. His work focuses on determining how the social services network and related clinical services can function as public health interventions. He is the author of Public Health and Aging: Maximizing Function and Well-Being (with Vicki Freedman), 2nd edition, 2010, and Assessing Quality of Life in Alzheimer's Disease (with Rebecca Logsdon), 2000.

SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: Community Health Research in the 21st Century

Jessica G. Burke, Jeanette Trauth, and Steven Albert

SECTION 2: INFERRING THE MEANING OF NUMBERS

Chapter 2: Spatial Analysis of Communities

Ann C. Klassen, Frank Curriero, Loni P. Tabb, and Amy Carroll-Scott

Chapter 3: Agent Based Modeling of Factors Influencing Community Health

John Grefenstette and Jessica G. Burke

Chapter 4: A Network Approach to Community Health Research

Christopher Keane

Chapter 5: Realist Review and Evaluation: What do we know about what works?

Maritt Krist, PhD and Patricia O’Campo

SECTION 3: INFERRING THE MEANING OF WORDS

Chapter 6: System Dynamics and Community Health

Kristen Hassmiller Lich, Rebecca Niles, Karen Minyard, Gaurav Dave, and Emily Gillen

Chapter 7: Concept Mapping of Community Perceptions

Renee Walker, Jennifer R. Jones, and Jessica G. Burke

Chapter 8: Visual Voices as a Method for Community Engagement in Research and Action

Rebecca D. Ochtera, Kimberly J. Rak, and Michael A. Yonas

Chapter9: News Media Analysis: Influence on community health behaviors and practices

Katherine Clegg Smith

SECTION 4: CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 10: Advancing Community Health Using Emerging Research Methods

Jessica Burke, Jennifer R. Jones, and Helen Meissner

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	456 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10	0-8261-9877-5 / 0826198775
ISBN-13	978-0-8261-9877-8 / 9780826198778
Zustand	Neuware