Improving Health Research on Small Populations: Proceedings of a Workshop

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

doi:10.17226/25112

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Improving Health Research on Small Populations

Proceedings of a Workshop

(2018)

The increasing diversity of population of the United States presents many challenges to conducting health research that is representative and informative. Dispersion and accessibility issues can increase logistical costs; populations for which it is difficult to obtain adequate sample size are also likely to be expensive to study. Hence, even if it is technically feasible to study a small population, it may not be easy to obtain the funding to do so. In order to address the issues associated with improving health research of small populations, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop in January 2018. Participants considered ways of addressing the challenges of conducting epidemiological studies or intervention research with small population groups, including alternative study designs, innovative methodologies for data collection, and innovative statistical techniques for analysis.

Contributor(s): National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Health and Medicine Division; Committee on National Statistics; Board on Health Care Services; Nancy Kirkendall and Jordyn White, Rapporteurs

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Improving Health Research on Small Populations: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25112.

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150 pages | 6 x 9 |

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Paperback: 978-0-309-47609-6
Ebook: 978-0-309-47612-6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/25112

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-xii
1 Introduction and Background	1-6
2 What Do We Mean by "Small Populations"?	7-18
3 Challenges in Using Available Data for Small Population Health Research	19-30
4 Techniques Used in Survey Research to Identify and Find Small Populations for Health Research	31-50
5 New and Emerging Designs for Intervention Studies	51-70
6 Recruitment, Retention, and Collection of Data	71-86
7 Analysis Techniques for Small Population Research	87-102
8 Closing Remarks	103-112
Appendix A: Agenda and List of Participants	113-128
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee and Speakers	129-136
Committee on National Statistics	137-138

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