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"With the increasing focus on tackling obesity and other lifestyle-related illnesses and conditions, participation in sports and physical activity is growing. The consequences are that injuries and unwanted side-effects of healthy activity are becoming major health problems. Prevention is cruci...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Verhagen, Evert, 1976-, Van Mechelen, Willem
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Sports injuries > Research.
Athletic Injuries > epidemiology.
Athletic Injuries > etiology.
Athletic Injuries > prevention & control.
Cost-Benefit Analysis.
Research Design.
Table of Contents:
  • Defining a research question
  • Study designs
  • Basic statistical methods
  • Injury definitions
  • Research designs for descriptive studies
  • Statistics used in observational studies
  • Reviews : using the literature to your advantage
  • The multi-causality of injury : current concepts
  • Investigating injury risk factors and mechanisms
  • Statistics in aetiological studies
  • The pragmatic approach
  • The behavioural approach
  • Research designs for evaluation studies
  • Statistics used in effect studies
  • Cost-effectiveness studies
  • Implementing studies into real life