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    • Research Methods
      • 1a - Epidemiology
      • 1b - Statistical Methods
      • 1c - Health Care Evaluation and Health Needs Assessment
      • 1d - Qualitative Methods
    • Disease Causation and Diagnostic
      • 2a - Epidemiological Paradigms
      • 2b - Epidemiology of Diseases of Public Health Significance
      • 2c - Diagnosis and Screening
      • 2d - Genetics
      • 2e - Health and Social Behaviour
      • 2f - Environment
      • 2g - Communicable Disease
      • 2h - Principles and Practice of Health Promotion
      • 2i - Disease Prevention, Models of Behaviour Change
    • Health Information
      • 3a - Populations
      • 3b - Sickness and Health
      • 3c - Applications
    • Medical Sociology, Policy and Economics
      • 4a - Concepts of Health and Illness and Aetiology of Illness
      • 4b - Health Care
      • 4c - Equality, Equity and Policy
      • 4d - Health Economics
    • Organisation and Management
      • 5a - Understanding Individuals,Teams and their Development
      • 5b - Understanding Organisations, their Functions and Structure
      • 5c - Management and Change
      • 5d - Understanding the Theory and Process of Strategy Development
      • 5e Health and social service quality
      • 5f Finance, Management Accounting and Relevant Theoretical Approaches
    • Further Resources
      • Frameworks For Answering Questions
      • General Advice for the DFPH exam
      • Past Papers (available on the FPH website)
  • Text Courses
    • Epidemiology
      • Epidemiology for Practitioners
      • Epidemiology for Specialists
    • Health Information
      • Applications of health information for practitioners
      • Applications of health information for specialists
      • Population health information for practitioners
      • Population health information for specialists
      • Sickness and health for practitioners
      • Sickness and Health Information for specialists
    • Statistical Methods
      • Statistical methods for practitioners
      • Statistical methods for specialists
  • Video Courses
    • Finding and Appraising the Evidence
      • Introduction
      • 1. Overall Introduction to Critical Appraisal
      • 2. Finding the Evidence
      • 3. Randomised Control Trials
      • 4. Systematic Reviews
      • 5. Economic Evaluations
      • 6. Making Sense of Results
    • Learning from Stakeholders
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1 – Stakeholder engagement
      • Chapter 2 – Reasons for engaging stakeholders
      • Chapter 3 – Identifying appropriate stakeholders
      • Chapter 4 – Understanding engagement methods
      • Chapter 5 – Using engagement methods, P1
      • Chapter 5 – Using engagement methods, P2
      • Chapter 6 – Analysing the data
      • Chapter 7 - Monitoring engagement
      • Chapter 8 - Evaluating engagement
      • Chapter 9 - Understanding the lessons learned
    • Obesity Care Pathway Support Package
      • Introduction
      • Initiation
      • Stakeholder Engagement
      • Development
      • Implementation
      • Evaluation
    • Programme Budgeting and Marginal Analysis
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1 - Introduction to PBMA
      • Chapter 2 - Endorsements & Evidence
      • Chapter 3 - World Class Commissioning
      • Chapter 4 - Marginal Analysis in Action
      • Chapter 5 - Mental Health Example
      • Chapter 6 - Diabetes Test Example
      • Chapter 7 - The Challenge
      • Chapter 8 - Programme Budgeting Spreadsheet
      • Chapter 9 - Programme Budgeting Atlas
      • Chapter 10 - NHS Comparators Website
      • Chapter 11 - The Challenge
    • Screening
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1 - What screening is and is not
      • Chapter 2 - What screening does
      • Chapter 3 - The screening programme
      • Chapter 4 - Measuring what screening does
      • Chapter 5 - Measures of test performance
      • Chapter 6 - Handling media interviews
      • Chapter 7 - Commissioning quality screening
      • Chapter 8 - Screening prior to evidence
      • Chapter 9 - Interview with Sir Muir Gray
    • Sustainable Healthcare
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1 - What is Climate Change?
      • Chapter 2 - Greening the Health Service
      • Chapter 3 - Changing the Energy of the NHS
      • Chapter 4 - Distributed Health and Service and How to Reduce Travel
      • Chapter 5 - The End of Waste
      • Chapter 6 - Sustainable Clinical Practice
      • Chapter 7 - Public Health Advocacy
      • Chapter 8 - Turning Theory into Action
      • Chapter 9 - Theory into Action
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    • Health Everyone's Business
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    • Knowledge Management
    • Leadership and Management
    • Policy and Strategy Development
    • Prioritisation and Performance Management
    • Programme and Project Management
    • Supporting the Analyst
    • Teaching Public Health for Action
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Research Methods

1. Research Methods Appropriate To Public Health Practice, including Epidemiology, Statistical Methods and other methods of enquiry including Qualitative Research Methods.

1a Epidemiology - Helen Barratt and Maria Kirwan 2009, revised in 2018 by Saran Shantikumar
1b Statistical-Methods - Michael Campbell, 2006, revised in 2016 by Professor Michael Campbell and Saran Shantikumar
1c Health Care Evaluation and Health Needs Assessment - Rosalind Blackwood and Renu Bindra, revised in 2016 by Claire Currie
1d Principles of Qualitative Methods - Iain Crinson, Miranda Leontowitsch, revised in 2016 by Dr Gemma Morgan

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