Conduct of such evaluation research and relationship with audiences such as policy makers are analyzed. Course provides rudimentary skills for those conducting their own research and large field surveys. Introduces meta-analysis techniques and applications in health research, including research design, sampling and data collection, and analytical techniques and software. Uses examples from drug and alcohol studies, and other health care evaluation studies. Course provides qualitative analysis and the development of substantive and formal sociological theory.
Emphasis is on student-presented data and their conceptualization.
Advanced methods seminar. Examines the complexity of issues and challenge of advanced quantitative research in measurement models, complex survey analysis, longitudinal design and analysis, and meta analysis. Class explores the scope and etiology of violence in the United States. Discussion includes the links between different types of violence, examination of competing theoretical approaches to explain the causes of violence, and different policy approaches to resolve and prevent violence. Course provides discussion of problems faced by chronically ill persons and their families including crisis management, handling symptoms, managing regimens, social isolation, phases of disease, temporal difficulties, normalization, dying, as well as policy issues confronting health personnel and the general public.