Author: elyse tsang
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Community-based participatory research
Photo by Ali Kazal on Unsplash By Elyse Tsang Our previous knowledge hub posts have touched on the great diversity between rural communities, making it challenging to apply identical research approaches and generalize findings across rural populations. Considering this reality, what strategies can support the heterogeneity of rural health research to ensure that individual community needs are…
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Quantitative research methodologies used in rural health research
Photo by 丁亦然 on Unsplash By Sila Rogan and Elyse Tsang What is quantitative research? Numbers are the hallmark of quantitative research. Quantitative research is characterized by collecting and analyzing numerical data generated through various statistical, computational, or mathematical methods. These quantitative findings can determine associations or causality between variables and can also be used…
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Asking the right questions in rural health research
Photo by Gonz DDL on Unsplash By Elyse Tsang This blog post builds off our previous discussion on the various methodologies used in rural health research and takes a detailed look into the first step of this process – asking the right questions. Approaching rural health through a rural lens When it comes to rural…