HLST 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-10: Stratified Sampling, Focus Group, Ethnography
9 Feb 2020
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Defining health research there is no universal definition. A more holistic definition: the capacity of people to adapt to, respond to, or control life"s challenges and changes frankish et al. , 1996) The extent to which an individual or group is able to realize aspirations and satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment. Young"s four main purposes: (2004: describe, explain, predict, control. Health research is a tool for generating knowledge for education, disease prevention, and practice and policy development. General purpose is to improve overall health. : the ways in which race, gender, and class combine to influence population patterns of morbidity and mortality. : the study of the distribution and patterns of health- related conditions and the factors that affect them in a population research paradigms. : a set of beliefs and practices regarding what constitutes knowledge and how that knowledge is to be generated. What is research paradigms? three distinct dimensions: epistemology:
