Domain #
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Domain Description
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1.0
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Health:
- Essential.
- Distribution of health
and disease in populations.
- Models of how health is
produced with special emphasis on how health services influence health.
- Health disparities.
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2.0
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Financing of Health
Care:
- Essential.
- Costs of care and cost
containment.
- Healthcare markets.
- Links between financing
and organization of health services.
- Coverage policy.
- Provider payment.
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3.0
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Organization of Health
Care:
- Essential.
- Organizational theory (which
may merit a separate category).
- Models for
understanding behavior of organizations.
- Measurement of health
organizational characteristics.
- Health workforce.
- Models for
understanding human behavior within health organizations.
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4.0
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Health Policy:
- Essential: Understanding
the impact of health policy.
- Optional: Health policy
analysis.
- Health policy formation
and implementation.
- Role of advocacy.
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5.0
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Health Care Law:
- Optional.
- Effects of legal
environment on organization and financing of health care.
- Using the legal system
to improve health.
- Links between
regulation and health system performance and outcomes.
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6.0
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Ethics and Health Care:
- Optional.
- Models for the just
allocation of resources.
- Equity.
- Resource allocation.
- Ethical principles that
help explain health system effects on the patient-provider relationship.
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7.0
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Health Care Seeking,
Access, and Use:
- Essential.
- Models of access, use,
and health care seeking behavior.
- Health beliefs and
preferences.
- Healthcare disparities.
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8.0
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Quality of Care:
- Esssential: Knowledge about quality of care.
- Optional:: Quality improvement applications.
- Quality of care frameworks.
- System-oriented approach
to understanding quality and improving quality.
- Effectiveness and
outcomes research.
- Patient safety.
- Quality improvement.
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9.0
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Health Care
Decisionmaking:
- Optional.
- Category could be
embedded within health care organization.
- Models of individual
and health professional decisionmaking.
- Ways to improve shared
decisionmaking between patients and professionals.
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10.0
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Health Informatics:
- Essential.
- Computer-assisted
decisionmaking.
- Use of electronic media
as data collection devices.
- Knowledge of common
health care classification systems.
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11.0
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Scientific Method and
Theory:
- Essential.
- Scientific method:
theory and application.
- Philosophy of science.
- Hypothesis development.
- Causality.
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12.0
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Literature Review:
- Essential.
- Literature review
methods.
- Meta-analysis.
- Putting a research
study into the context of prior work.
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13.0
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Study Design:
- Essential.
- Intervention study
design: experimental and quasi-experimental.
- Threats to validity and
bias associated with alternative study designs.
- Longitudinal study
designs.
- Unit of analysis.
- Cohort and case-control
study design.
- Risk adjustment methods.
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14.0
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Survey Research:
- Essential.
- Data collection protocols.
- Questionnaire
development.
- Sampling methods.
- Subject recruitment.
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15.0
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Qualitative Research:
- Essential.
- Focus groups, key
informant interviews, semi-structured interviews.
- Ethnographic analysis
and case study methods.
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16.0
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HSR Data Sources:
- Essential.
- Database development.
- Matching secondary data
to specific HSR questions.
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17.0
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Measurement and
Variables:
- Essential.
- Psychometrics of items,
indexes, and scales.
- Reliability and
validity.
- Classical and modern
measurement theory and applications.
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18.0
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Data Acquisition and
Quality Control:
- Essential.
- Research protocols that
standardize procedures in a reproducible way.
- Data entry and data
quality control methods.
- Interviewer training
manuals.
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19.0
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Research Ethics:
- Essential.
- Identify human subjects
research.
- HIPAA.
- Informed consent and
assent.
- Conflicts of interest.
- Responsible conduct of
research.
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20.0
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Teamwork:
- Essential.
- Multi-disciplinary
approach to HSR design and implementation.
- Staff supervision.
- Team communication.
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21.0
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Project Management:
- Optional.
- Project timelines.
- Manage team meetings.
- Personnel management.
- Accounting methods.
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22.0
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Advanced HSR Analytic
Methods:
- Essential.
- Commonly used
econometric methods.
- Causal modeling.
- Multivariable linear
and logistic regression.
- Generalized linear
models.
- Longitudinal and
multi-level modeling.
- Non-parametric measures
of association.
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23.0
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Economic Evaluation
and Decision Sciences:
- Essential.
- Cost-effectiveness.
- Cost-benefit.
- Cost-utility analyses.
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24.0
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Proposal Development:
- Essential.
- Write a research
project proposal.
- Sponsors of HSR.
- Grant peer review
process.
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25.0
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Dissemination:
- Essential.
- Oral presentation
skills.
- Manuscript preparation.
- Manuscript peer review
process.
- Translating research
into policy and practice.
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26.0
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Professional
Development:
- Optional.
- Develop a plan for
lifelong learning in HSR.
- Successfully
transitioning from life as a student to a career in HSR.
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27.0
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Pedagogy:
- Optional.
- Course design.
- Prepare and delivery
instructional material.
- Course evaluation.
- Teaching philosophies.
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