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Welcome to Quantitative Methods for Health Research, a study programme designed to introduce
you to the knowledge and skills required to make sense of published health research, and to begin
designing and carrying out studies of your own.
The book is based closely on materials developed and tested over almost ten years with the
Master of Public Health (MPH) programme at the University of Liverpool, UK. A key theme of
our approach to teaching and learning is to ensure a reasonable level of theoretical knowledge
(as this helps to provide a solid basis to knowledge), while placing at least as much emphasis
on the application of theory to practice (to demonstrate what actually happens when theoretical
‘ideals’ come up against reality). For these reasons, the learning materials h... |