International Journal of Public Health Blog
We are happy to host this guest blog post introducing two recently published Hints & Kinks* papers, written by the authors of the most cited IJPH article ‘The reliability of a two-item scale: Pearson, Cronbach,...
Although there is some international ambiguity, studies in the US show more frequently a self-reported health advantage among immigrants. In study we just published, Emma KT Benn uses a method that aims to...
Low response rates present a common problem in epidemiological surveys. People with foreign background might show lower response rates, due to factors such as language problems. Different strategies to increase response rates have...
The Swiss School of Public Health+ has just announced a new course for the upcoming Spring: this will be a 3 day course on statistical modeling with emphasis on logistic regression. The course is...
Do you have to deal with clustered data and would like to know how to define the appropriate analysis methods for your dataset? Do you want to learn how to perform and evaluate such...
We are happy to announce the upcoming course from the Swiss School of Public Health+ (SSPH+) on Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses. This 2-day course will cover theoretical and practical aspects of conducting systematic reviews,...
We are happy to announce two new courses offered by the Swiss School of Public Health+. “Analysis of data with measurements below the detection limit“: This course aims to provide participants with an...
The HPV vaccination , i.e. vaccination against Human Papilloma virus which causes most cases of cervical cancer, has recently gained fresh news coverage due to various reasons. First off, researchers identified cervical cells...
A while ago (time does fly!) we have talked about Public Health methodology at the International Journal of Public Health and its special section called Hints and Kinks which includes short methodological reports (1000...
In the past we have talked about online games in public health, social media in public health and we do have a blog which I guess is the biggest proof that we are very...
– How many epidemiologists does it take to change a light bulb? – Six. One to change it and five to critique the methods. This made me laugh out loud. Methodology in Public Health...
