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Understanding and Minimizing Epidemiologic Bias in Public Health Research

Awareness of possible partialities is important for both public health assessors and policymakers, in a community health assessment: for assessors when crafting and steering studies, and for policymakers when reading study reports and making verdicts.          It is highly important to access risk of bias in all studies review irrespective of preventive unpredictability, in […]

Mixed Qualitative-Quantitative Approach in Community Health Research

There is an integrated approach that both uses quantitative and qualitative research to come up with pragmatic strategy. A research by Goldman, Parker, Brown, Walker, Eaton, et al. (2015) used a comprehensive research report; mixed qualitative-quantitative evaluation to assess the likelihood of whether patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model produces desired results. This public health evaluation offers […]

Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis in Community Health Assessment

One benefit of using qualitative date when conducting a community health assessment is that the assessor can broaden evidence from understanding behavior pattern and activities of information, not necessarily numerical and quantity in formation. By the same token, the approach could be one in which the assessor makes use of knowledge claim, based mainly on […]

The United States, Healthcare and Infant Mortality

The United States (US) has the most expensive health care system in the world. In spite of that, health care is of somewhat inconsistent in  quality, and leads to poorer health outcomes relative to other, similar nations. For example, the United States has much higher infant mortality rates regardless of geographical focus. The result is […]

Community Profiling

Community profiling is used to classify the fortes, weaknesses, needs and problems of a community like, African American church community on the Chicago south side. By identifying these classifications of profiling, we are basically making decisions about health services, while extenuating the allocation of resources. A lot of people may not understand the concept of […]

Community Health Assessment

       Community health assessment is the collecting, analyzing and using data to educate and mobilize communities, develop priorities, gather resources, and plan actions to advance the public’s health (Minnesota Department of Health, n.d.).  A community health assessment delivers the groundwork for cultivating and promoting the health of the community. Evaluating environmental health risks in communities requires models characterizing geographic […]

Health, Aetna and Insurance System

Aetna is an American managed health care company, providing a range of traditional and consumer directed health care insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, group life, long-term care and disability plans, and medical management capabilities. Aetna provides employers and employees with choices between paying on a fixed monthly basis (premium) […]