Designing and Conducting Health Surveys
A Comprehensive Guide
Chapter One
THINKING ABOUT TOPICS
FOR HEALTH SURVEYS
Chapter Highlights
1. Surveys systematically collect information on a topic by asking
individuals questions to generate statistics on the group or
groups that those individuals represent.
2. Health surveys ask questions about a variety of factors that
influence, measure, or are affected by people's health.
3. Health survey researchers should review the major international,
national, state, and local health surveys relevant to their
interests before undertaking their own study.
4. Good survey design is basically a matter of good planning.
5. The total survey error and survey quality framework alerts
researchers to ways to identify and mitigate both bias and
variable errors in surveys.
This book provides guidance for designing and conducting health surveys.
These surveys systematically collect information on a topic of interest (such
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