1. A.) Research Methods

Question 1

What is evidence?

Answer 1

“the available body of facts or information indicating that a belief or proposition is true or valid. The information is generally presented as data - either Quant or Qual.

Question 2

What is global health research?

Answer 2

Research that generates evidence to guide
planning, decision-making, and priority setting in
global health.

Question 3

What is the cycle for evidence generation?

Answer 3

1. Define health priorities.
2. Understanding the causes.
3. Developing the intervention.
4. Implementing the intervention.
5. Evaluating health outcomes.

Question 4

What is epidemiology?

Answer 4

The systematic study of the distribution
of health-related events and their determinants in
populations.

Question 5

What are the goals of epidemiology?

Answer 5

1. Describe the observed distribution.
2. Explain the distribution.
3. To develop and test interventions.

Question 6

What are the two epidemiological core concepts?

Answer 6

1. Exposure (determinant)

2. Outcome

Question 7

What is statistics?

Answer 7

• The science of collecting, summarising, analysing and
  interpreting data
• Essential to planning, analysing and understanding
  epidemiological studies
• Testing hypotheses and allowing valid inferences to be made
  from a random sample to the population that the random
  sample was selected from.

Question 8

What is qualitative research?

Answer 8

• Qualitative research
investigates the why and how
(things happen the way they
do). It can be performed through questioning either the meaning or the process.