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Promoting data harmonization to evaluate vaccine hesitancy in LMICs: approach and applications

on health outcomes with datasets on potentially important contextual factors, like political violence or development, due to incompatible levels of geographic support; differing data formats and ... , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI , USA 1 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI , USA 2 Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research

Case study research and causal inference

public health and health services interventions. To strengthen the contribution that case studies make to that evidence base, researchers could: draw on wider methods from the political and social sciences ... political and social sciences, in particular on methods for robust analysis; carefully consider what population their case is a case 'of'; and explicate the rationale used for making causal inferences. Case

Development of an Aboriginal Resilience and Recovery Questionnaire – a collaboration between practitioners and help-seeking clients of a Victorian Aboriginal community controlled health service

, political integrity, and resistance as an emancipatory imperative [ 26 ]. This methodology ensured that the project upheld the VAHS ethos of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander self-determination, and ... Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation . Unpublished Doctor of Philosophy thesis . University of Melbourne Australia. 2016 . 25. Markwick A , Ansari Z , Sullivan M , McNeil J . Social determinants

Health estimate differences between six independent web surveys: different web surveys, different results?

distributions of frame variables and voting behaviour in probability-based surveys and opt-in panels . Swiss Political Sci Rev . 2022 ; 28 ( 4 ): 696 - 711 . https://doi.org/10. 1111/spsr.12539. 13. Couper MP ... Estimating Constituency Opinion . Political Stud Rev . 2019 ; 18 ( 4 ): 630 - 45 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929919864773.

Combinational Regularity Analysis (CORA) — a new method for uncovering complex causation in medical and health research

evolve during the 1980s in sociology and political science for inferring about causeeffect relations from configurational data. The structure © The Author(s) 2022. Open Access This article is licensed ... . of these relations is defined by the so-called INUS Theory [ 6–8 ], which enjoys a long intellectual pedigree in the philosophy of causation [ 9, 10 ] (an “INUS condition” is an insufficient but

Advancements in predicting and modeling rare event outcomes for enhanced decision-making

. Logistic regression in rare events data . Political Anal . 2001 ; 9 : 137 - 63 . 3. Peduzzi P , Concato J , Kemper E , Holford TR , Feinstein AR . A simulation study of the number of events per variable in

Causal inference and observational data

observational data finds application across various fields, with notable impact observed in domains such as healthcare, medicine, political and economic sciences, and social sciences. In healthcare and medical

TRIPLE C reporting principles for case study evaluations of the role of context in complex interventions

understand the results and effects of use on access, continuity and quality of services and work, service organization, and practice transformation; (3) to explore socio-political, regulatory, organizational ... complexity. For instance, realist evaluation is rooted in a social realist philosophy and places particular emphasis on understanding generative causation (in this case, understanding how complex interventions

Quantifying and communicating the burden of COVID-19

An essential aspect of preventing further COVID-19 outbreaks and to learn for future pandemics is the evaluation of different political strategies, which aim at reducing transmission of and mortality ... by the pandemic. Such comparisons have important political implications which is why we put specific focus on this aspect. Finally, to achieve acceptance of the population wide preventive interventions

baymedr: an R package and web application for the calculation of Bayes factors for superiority, equivalence, and non-inferiority designs

Philosophy of Bayes Factors and the Quantification of Statistical Evidence . J Math Psychol . 2016 ; 72 : 6 - 18 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp. 2015 . 11 .001. 88. Consonni G , Fouskakis D , Liseo B

Does big data require a methodological change in medical research?

as to whether big data require new approaches to scientific reasoning different from those established in statistics and philosophy of science. The progressing digitalization of our societies generates ... or, as the IOM put it, “alternative research methodologies” [3]. We disagree with this assertion and will discuss below whether, from a philosophy of science point of view, a paradigm shift is apt in

Calibration and XGBoost reweighting to reduce coverage and non-response biases in overlapping panel surveys: application to the Healthcare and Social Survey

/10.1002/9780470743874.ch15. 15. Arcos A , Rueda MdM , Pasadas‑ del Amo S. Treating Nonresponse in Probability‑Based Online Panels through Calibration: Empirical Evidence from a Survey of Political Decision

Frameworks for estimating causal effects in observational settings: comparing confounder adjustment and instrumental variables

their paper, share a similar philosophy to this paper in that choosing between confounder and IV approaches includes weighing unmeasured confounding against the hypothesized validity of the IV [ 9 ... propensity scores as a prediction problem, this may lead to unintended consequences. The original philosophy of propensity scores from Rosenbaum and Rubin is not to fit the first-stage as well as possible

Widening participation – recruitment methods in mental health randomised controlled trials: a qualitative study

addressed at a societal level, however they also considered positive generational changes in some cultures were now in evidence. “There is that political dimension that almost everyone is aware of, a sense ... ). Trust was raised by several PPI participants as a significant barrier to diversity in research. This was described at a political level and within individual communities that may see themselves as

Ensuring cross-cultural data comparability by means of anchoring vignettes in heterogeneous refugee samples

, different political systems, religious conflicts, war and poverty mean that migration and refugee flows are now and will continue in the future to be one of the main human challenges facing societies ... GLLAMM: Political efficacy example from King et al . ( 2002 ). http://www.gllamm.org/ chopit.pdf. 63. Lubke G , Muthén BO . Performance of Factor Mixture Models as a Function of Model Size, Covariate

Developing the intersectionality supplemented Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) and tools for intersectionality considerations

Collins DSE , Ergun P , Inger E , Bond F , Martinez-Palacios KD . J “Intersectionality in Critical Social Theory” . 2021 ; 20 : 690 - 725 . Contemporary Political Theory. 17. Canada Parliament. “ Debates of

Instruments to measure fear of COVID-19: a diagnostic systematic review

. For this review, we assessed for eligibility all studies that had been categorized to the topic “Experiences and perceptions, consequences; social, political, economic aspects” as of 25 September 2020 ... , consequences; social, political, economic aspects”. One researcher screened all identified references specifically for the inclusion criteria for this systematic review, and read in full-text those containing

Applying the 4Ps of social marketing to retain and engage participants in longitudinal cohort studies: generation 2 Raine study participant perspectives

likely to keep coming back. The notion of fostering a more meaningful level of engagement relates to a key philosophy in public health research that emphasises the importance of participants being ... applying our findings to other studies. The 30+ year old Raine Study is located within the social, political and geographical context of an affluent state with a stable government, a mild climate and high

Neutral theory: applicability and neutrality of clinical study endpoints where a disease-specific instrument is available

currently no standardised methods for assessing the accuracy of disease construct measurement in clinical studies. Neutral theory, first described here, is a possible solution rooted in the philosophy of

Conducting school-based health surveys with secondary schools in England: advice and recommendations from school staff, local authority professionals, and wider key stakeholders, a qualitative study

of school-based interventions; specifically, research discusses the negative impact of time constraints [ 56 ], and highlights the importance of aligning an intervention with school philosophy and