Learning Outcomes for Study Session 10

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

10.1  Define and use correctly all of the key words printed in bold. (SAQs 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4)

10.2  Describe the general principles and purposes of health research, distinguishing between basic and applied, quantitative and qualitative, and cross-sectional and longitudinal health research. (SAQs 101, 10.2 and 10.4)

10.3  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. (SAQs 10.3 and 10.4)