Secondary Data Sources for Public Health
Secondary Data Sources for Public Health
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Secondary data analysis plays an increasingly important role in epidemiology and public health research and practice, but many difficulties confront researchers and analysts who wish to use secondary data to address a research or policy question. This practical guide is the only book to provide both an introduction to secondary data analysis and a list of major sources of secondary data in the United States. Entries for each data source include the focus of the data, years available, data collection process used, and directions about how to access the data and supporting materials.
- Discussion of issues involved in secondary data analysis
- Focused specifically on epidemiology and public health
- Enumeration of major sources of epidemiologic and public health data in the United States
Product details
April 2007Hardback
9780521870016
164 pages
255 × 179 × 9 mm
0.456kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. An introduction to secondary data analysis
- 2. Health service utilization data
- 3. Health behaviors and risk factors data
- 4. Data on multiple health topics
- 5. Fertility and mortality data
- 6. Medicare and Medicaid data
- 7. Other sources of data.
