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Author : Peter G. Smith
Release : 1996
Genre : Field trials
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Book Rating : 586/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Field Trials of Health Interventions in Developing Countries by : Peter G. Smith
Download or read book Field Trials of Health Interventions in Developing Countries written by Peter G. Smith. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter G. Smith
Release : 2015
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Synopsis Field Trials of Health Interventions by : Peter G. Smith
Download or read book Field Trials of Health Interventions written by Peter G. Smith. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Before new interventions are released into disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in field trials'. These may be complex and expensive undertakings, requiring the follow-up of hundreds, or thousands, of individuals, often for long periods. Descriptions of the detailed procedures and methods used in the trials that have been conducted have rarely been published. A consequence of this, individuals planning such trials have few guidelines available and little access to knowledge accumulated previously, other than their own. In this manual, practical issues in trial design and conduct are discussed fully and in sufficient detail, that Field Trials of Health Interventions may be used as a toolbox' by field investigators. It has been compiled by an international group of over 30 authors with direct experience in the design, conduct, and analysis of field trials in low and middle income countries and is based on their accumulated knowledge and experience. Available as an open access book via Oxford Medicine Online, this new edition is a comprehensive revision, incorporating the new developments that have taken place in recent years with respect to trials, including seven new chapters on subjects ranging from trial governance, and preliminary studies to pilot testing.
Author : Arnab K. Acharya
Release : 2007
Genre :
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Book Synopsis Impact Evaluation of Health Interventions in Developing Countries by : Arnab K. Acharya
Download or read book Impact Evaluation of Health Interventions in Developing Countries written by Arnab K. Acharya. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years an important term, 'the evaluation gap', coined by the Center for Global Development (CGD) has come into play in policy debates around how to improve the wellbeing of many of the poor in developing countries. As explained in a policy document sponsored by CGD (Savedoff, Levine and Birdsall, 2006) this term refers to the fact that much of development programs are implemented at a large scale without much systematic examination of what it is that these programs can achieve in terms of wellbeing. Impact analyses in health in most circumstances have been limited to clinical studies or field trials of vaccine effectiveness. Few studies have examined at a field level how complex health interventions, design to affect social and behavioural elements, impacted the targeted groups or the bystanders. As expected, the few studies that have taken place have evaluated: (1) health interventions that are solely designed to have health impact (2) health interventions that have impact on health as well as some other social wellbeing (3) social interventions that are aimed at overall wellbeing that could affect health. What have these evaluation studies contributed toward understanding the problems of implementation of effective health policies in developing countries? The presenters will offer a critical review of what the stage is now for evaluation of health projects in complex settings. Both non-experimental and experimental approach to evaluation will be examined. It will be noted that experimental approaches have not been free of non-experimental approaches and may be susceptible to some of the same problems non-experimental methods encounter. The issue of scaling up issues are central when programs have been evaluated as experiments. Presenters will discuss as to what do the methodologies used imply for implementing a particular program into the near and medium run future?
Author : P. G. Smith
Release : 1991-12-12
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Methods for Field Trials of Interventions Against Tropical Diseases by : P. G. Smith
Download or read book Methods for Field Trials of Interventions Against Tropical Diseases written by P. G. Smith. This book was released on 1991-12-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before new interventions are released into disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in `field trials'. These may be complex and expensive undertakings, requiring the follow-up of hundreds, or thousands, of individuals, often for long periods. Descriptions of the detailed procedures and methods used in the trials that have been conducted have rarely been published. A consequence of this is that those planning such trials have few guidelines available and little access to knowledge accumulated previously, other than their own. In this manual practical issues in trial design and conduct are discussed fully and in sufficient detail such that it may be used as a `toolbox' by field investigators. It has been compiled by a group of people with direct experience in the design, conduct, and analysis of field trials, and is based on their accumulated experience.
Author : Roger Detels
Release : 2017
Genre : Medical
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Book Synopsis Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health by : Roger Detels
Download or read book Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health written by Roger Detels. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixth edition of the hugely successful, internationally recognised textbook on global public health and epidemiology, with 3 volumes comprehensively covering the scope, methods, and practice of the discipline
