Natural Experiments: An Overview of Methods, Approaches, and Contributions to Public Health Intervention Research

Natural Experiments: An Overview of Methods, Approaches, and Contributions to Public Health Intervention Research.

Population health interventions are essential to reduce health inequalities and tackle other public health priorities, but they are not always amenable to experimental manipulation. Natural experiment (NE) approaches are attracting growing interest as a way of providing evidence in such circumstances. One key challenge in evaluating NEs is selective exposure to the intervention. Studies should ...

An overview of diary research methods

The diary research method is one of the types of qualitative research that is different in context and over time due to its capacity to record the desired phenomena on a regular basis. This method, like other qualitative methods, is flexible and can be tailored to different research questions. The tendency of contemporary research is to study the feeling and perceptions of popular culture and t...

An overview of therapeutic approaches to brain tumor stem cells

 Primary and secondary malignant central nervous system (CNS) tumors are devastating invasive tumors able to give rise to many kinds of differentiated tumor cells. Glioblastoma multiform (GBM), is the most malignant brain tumor, in which its growth and persistence depend on cancer stem cells with enhanced DNA damage repair program that also induces recurrence and resists current chemo- and radi...

Contributions of academia to public health preparedness research.

Public Health and Criminal Justice Approaches to Homicide Research

Most criminologists acknowledge limited, but acceptable, uses for self-report survey techniques to measure common, non-serious offenses among youth. However, such techniques are likely to be challenged by critics for the study of serious violent crime. In fact, despite the availability of data on self-reports of violence in Monitoring the Future Surveys conducted for over a quarter of a century...