Research Methods of Health Sciences: Summary
Lecture 1 Introduction 4
Lecture 2 Conceptual framework and operationalizing your research 7
Lecture 3 Intro to research priorities and research agenda’s 11
Lecture 4 Inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on HS 13
Lecture 5 Collecting data in HS: Quantitative studies 17
Lecture 6 Collecting the data in HS: qualitative studies 24
Lecture 7 Risk vs prediction factors in observational studies 30
Lecture 8 Evaluation in HS1 39
Lecture 9 Evaluation in HS2 43
Lecture 10 Qualitative data analysis 52
Lecture 11 Literature Reviews I Systematic review 61
Lecture 12: Literature reviews II Meta-analysis 67
Exam material:
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, Theoretical perspectives and methodologies
Lecture 1 Introduction
Gray chapter 1,2,3
Current/complex public health issues
→ climate crisis, opioid ciris, making health care fairer, access to medicine, anti-microbial
resistance, public trust, ethical and social implications of new technologies etc.
What makes issues complex?
- Globalisation
- Fuzzy boundaries (what is part of it and what not)
- Internalized rules drive action (invisible, why people do this)
- Agents/people in the system change
- Systems are embedded in other systems and co-evolve
To understand and address these complex problems in health sceiences we need:
All is influenced and closely connected. → metaphor: tip of an iceberg.
Epistemology and theoretical perspectives + relationship between them
Epistemology = the study of knowledge, what constitutes valid knowledge. You start
developing your theory of knowledge at a young age.
Why is it important?
- will help the researcher to ecognize which designs will work or not.
- will help clarify issues of research design, especially in interdisciplinary teams.
Lecture 1 Introduction 4
Lecture 2 Conceptual framework and operationalizing your research 7
Lecture 3 Intro to research priorities and research agenda’s 11
Lecture 4 Inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on HS 13
Lecture 5 Collecting data in HS: Quantitative studies 17
Lecture 6 Collecting the data in HS: qualitative studies 24
Lecture 7 Risk vs prediction factors in observational studies 30
Lecture 8 Evaluation in HS1 39
Lecture 9 Evaluation in HS2 43
Lecture 10 Qualitative data analysis 52
Lecture 11 Literature Reviews I Systematic review 61
Lecture 12: Literature reviews II Meta-analysis 67
Exam material:
,
,
, Theoretical perspectives and methodologies
Lecture 1 Introduction
Gray chapter 1,2,3
Current/complex public health issues
→ climate crisis, opioid ciris, making health care fairer, access to medicine, anti-microbial
resistance, public trust, ethical and social implications of new technologies etc.
What makes issues complex?
- Globalisation
- Fuzzy boundaries (what is part of it and what not)
- Internalized rules drive action (invisible, why people do this)
- Agents/people in the system change
- Systems are embedded in other systems and co-evolve
To understand and address these complex problems in health sceiences we need:
All is influenced and closely connected. → metaphor: tip of an iceberg.
Epistemology and theoretical perspectives + relationship between them
Epistemology = the study of knowledge, what constitutes valid knowledge. You start
developing your theory of knowledge at a young age.
Why is it important?
- will help the researcher to ecognize which designs will work or not.
- will help clarify issues of research design, especially in interdisciplinary teams.
