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Librarians’ Presentation
Pioneer High School Public Health Elective
Tips For Designing A Tips For Designing A Research ProjectResearch Project
Research ProcessResearch Process
• The research process is a step-by-step process of developing a research topic.
• Some times it is necessary to backup, revise, add additional material or even change your topic completely.
• There are many reasons for adjusting your topic.
Things To ConsiderThings To Consider
• Select a topic you are interested in or care about.
• The topic should not be too broad or too narrow.
• Can the topic be researched?
• Ask someone (teacher or subject specialist) to review your topic.
Think Three BearsThink Three Bears
Topic Is Too BroadTopic Is Too Broad
• If you find yourself standing in the library staring at a shelf full of books that could all work as references for your topic, your topic is too broad.
• Too many different ideas about that topic.
• A good topic addresses a specific question or problem.
Topic Is Too NarrowTopic Is Too Narrow
If you can't find any information about it in
the library, electronic resources or the Internet.
Topic Is Just RightTopic Is Just Right
• A good research project must be narrowed down in order to be meaningful and manageable.
• The best way to narrow your topic is to apply a few words, like who, what, where, when, why, and how.
Topic:Topic: juvenile delinquency
• What can we do to reduce juvenile
delinquency in the U.S.?
• Does education play a role in reducing
juvenile delinquents' return to crime?
More On More On Selecting A Research TopicSelecting A Research Topic
• Appropriate for the assignment.• Easy to research and write about.• Something you know enough about to write about
comfortably.• Not be too broad.• Not too narrow.• Interesting and important to you (or else you're going
to get very bored).• Creative, teachers hate tired topics that everybody
writes and speaks about.
Researching The LiteratureResearching The Literature
• Longer lag between an event or discovery and a book's publication.
• More cumulative coverage of a topic.
• Book publishing process:1. A formal book proposal.2. A publishing contract and target date for completion are set.3. Editor is assigned to edit the book.4. Editing is completed.5. Designers, graphic artists, and proofreaders work to turn an edited manuscript into a published book.
• Cover recent developments and events with little time lapse.
• Report fast-paced, competitive or time-sensitive research.
• Original research and focus on one experiment.
• Peer-reviewed or Refereed process:Many scholarly journals use a process of peer review prior to publishing an article, (scholars in field or specialty critically review a draft of the article). The review process helps ensure that the published articles reflect solid scholarship in a fields.
Books Journals
Public HealthPublic Health
•What is Public Health?
•Landmarks in Public Health
•Careers in Public Health.
Differences Between Public Differences Between Public Health andHealth and
Clinical Health ProfessionsClinical Health ProfessionsPublic Health
• Population• Health• Prevention & Health
Promotion
Clinical Health (medicine, nursing)
• Individual• Disease• Diagnosis &
Treatment
What is Public Health?What is Public Health?• Focus-protecting and improving the health of
communities through:educationpromotion of healthy lifestylespromoting research for disease & injury prevention
• Develop programs that protect the health of: the familythe communitythe nation the world
The Field of Public HealthThe Field of Public Health• Environmental Health
• Biostatistics
• Behavioral Science/Health Education
• Epidemiology
• Health Services Administration/Management
• Maternal and Child Health
• Nutrition
• International/Global Health
• Public Health Laboratory Practice
• Public Health Policy
• Public Health Practice
The 20th Century's Ten Great Public Health The 20th Century's Ten Great Public Health Achievements in the United States*Achievements in the United States*
*From Centers for Disease Control
Smallpox EradicationSmallpox Eradication
A Public Health Success Story
Smallpox Eradication TimelineSmallpox Eradication Timeline
• 400 AD Written descriptions occurred.• 1796 The first smallpox vaccine was developed by Edward
Jenner.• After WWI Most of Europe smallpox-free.• After WWII Transmission interrupted in Europe and North
America.• 1950 A program to eradicate smallpox in the Western
Hemisphere.• 1958 Proposal to eradicate the disease globally.• 1966 Budget of $2.4 million allocated to eradication program.• 1967 The Intensified Global Eradication program began.• December 9, 1979 World Health Organization officially certified
that smallpox had been eradicated.
Smallpox EradicationSmallpox EradicationCause for ConcernCause for Concern**
“As global smallpox immunization programs were phased out because of their success, monkeypox moved in and is on the rise.”About:First found in 1958 in laboratory monkeys.Reported in humans for the first time in 1970.Occurs mostly in central and western Africa.In early June 2003, monkeypox was reported among several people in the United States.Risk of death from monkeypox is low in the U.S. due to good nutrition and access to medical care.
*National Institutes of Health Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institutes of Child Health & Human Development
Some of the Top Public Health IssuesSome of the Top Public Health Issues**
• Consumer & Food Safety• Substance Abuse• Global Health Programs (H1N1 Virus & Seasonal Flu)• Bioterrorism • HIV/Aids• Heart Health• Malaria• Mental Health• Nutrition (Obesity & Prevention)• Reproductive & Sexual Health• Smoking• Public Health Preparedness & Disaster Response• Eliminating Health Disparities (racial and ethnic minorities
experience a lower quality of health services)
* Harvard School of Public Health World Health News