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Potential Challenges a public health professional may face when collecting qualitative data for community health assessment

The collection of primary and secondary qualitative data can only be in the form of words, images, texts, et cetera, not in the manner of numbers and/or specific measurement.  If community data may not be collected in a form of numbers, using formula or specific measurement, then the resulted data (i.e. qualitative data) may not […]

Qualitative and Quantitative Research

Qualitative research process allows researchers to gain a holistic overview of the research’s context and capture data on the knowledge of various participants. In Creswell (2009), qualitative research method deals with research strategies, such as ethnography, grounded theory, case studies, phenomenological research, and narrative research.  The best of my favorites is the case studies: a […]

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 […]

Team Environment, Leadership in Healthcare setting and What could be Communities of Practice (CoPs)

Gauging consistency among team member roles is important, not only in the healthcare sector, but among others. For example, if one team member has consistently been responsible for a certain type of task, which has been done effectively and efficiently in a group, then the skills needed to accomplish the said task are part of […]

Using Medicare Payment Policy To Transform The Health System: A Framework For Improving Performance- A Journal Review.

Prepared by: Abubakar Binji Synopsis:             The concern of providing pleasing medical overhaul to all the citizens of the United States at costs which can be focused and succeeded is an unrelenting one. Presently, many Americans do not receive medical care that is satisfactory both in quantity or quality or equality, and the costs of […]

Community Health Education Theory

Most nations have their own government public health divisions. They serve the health needs of their citizens and community members by providing public health assistance. The health divisions of the federal, state or local governments are usually known as ministries of health. In the video summary of theory by Laureate Education (2009), Michael Patton explores […]

Cramer’s V coefficient

…………………………………………………………………………………………………… The Cramer’s V coefficient talks about the strength of the relationship of your variables (Laureate Education, 2016a. For example, a value of 0 shows the absent of relationship between calculated variables, while a value of 1.0 shows a strong correlation between multiple variables. In many cases, the closer you get to 1.0, the better […]

Cook's Distance -Regression Diagnostic Model

Laureate Education (2016j ) described how we could examine Cook’s distance in terms of descriptive on the “residual statistics.” Additional expansion of the diagnostic issue relating to Cook’s distance is from an article by University of North Carolina (2015). The goal was meant to develop Cook’s distance procedures for assessing the influence of both atypical curves and observations, […]

Multiple Regression in Practice-SPSS

Variables Entered/Removeda Model Variables Entered Variables Removed Method 1 AGE OF RESPONDENT, HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETEDb . Enter a. Dependent Variable: R’s socioeconomic index (2010) b. All requested variables entered. Model Summaryb Model R R Square Adjusted R Square Std. Error of the Estimate Durbin-Watson 1 .599a .359 .358 17.9504 1.955 a. Predictors: (Constant), […]

Gender-Interventions and Cultural Competence

These gender-specific interventions will focus on educating more men about the important of cultural competence. It will also focus on a community-wide expansion of understanding what the set of likeminded conducts, approaches and policies are that come together in a scheme or specialization, and enable that structure or agency to work effectively in cross-cultural circumstances. […]

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