Learning Outcomes

When you have studied this session, you should be able to:

• Define and use correctly all of the key words printed in bold.
• Describe the general principles and purposes of health research, distinguishing between basic and applied, quantitative and qualitative, and cross-sectional and longitudinal health research.
• Describe the types of data collected in national censuses, large-scale surveys and local community surveys, and the common methods and questions used to collect survey data.