Research and evidence in health

In this unit you will attain the skills necessary to locate, critique, interpret and summarise relevant evidence, providing a solid foundation for an evidence-based approach to optimising health and well-being at a population level. You will be guided through skills in searching for and locating evidence, and introduced to different research methodologies and ways of analysing data to understand various research paradigms. You will use this information to critique the available literature. You will be introduced to both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis; basic descriptive statistics; measurement concepts; and synthesis and reporting of data.