Secondary Data Sources for Public Health : A Practical Guide Hardback
by Sarah (Washington University, St Louis) Boslaugh
Part of the Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology series
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Description
Secondary data play an increasingly important role in epidemiology and public health research and practice; examples of secondary data sources include national surveys such as the BRFSS and NHIS, claims data for the Medicare and Medicaid systems, and public vital statistics records.
Although a wealth of secondary data is available, it is not always easy to locate and access appropriate data to address a research or policy question.
This practical guide circumvents these difficulties by providing an introduction to secondary data and issues specific to its management and analysis, followed by an enumeration of major sources of secondary data in the United States.
Entries for each data source include the principal focus of the data, years for which it is available, history and methodology of the data collection process, and information about how to access the data and supporting materials, including relevant details about file structure and format.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:164 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/04/2007
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- ISBN:9780521870016
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:164 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/04/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521870016
