How to Write a Research Paper in Public Health

Shola explains the structure and process of writing and publishing a scientific paper in a peer-reviewed public health journal.

How To Write a Research Paper in Public Health; So you want to write and publish a scientific paper or an academic paper, and you want to publish it in a peer-reviewed journal. I'm going to talk you through the process of how to write that paper and what it is that goes into the various sections of the paper. So basically, papers have got a number of sections. There's the title and the abstract. There's the introduction and background. There's the methods, results, discussion, and conclusions. In this video, I'm going to talk to you about what goes into each of those sections. PUBLIC HEALTH RESARCH PROTOCOL AND WRITING STYLE: COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE CERTIFICATION DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES & FIGURES DEFINITION OF OPERATIONAL TERMS ABBREVIATIONS CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study and Scope 1.2 Statement of the Problem 1.3 Research Questions 1.4 Objectives for the study: General and Specific objectives 1.5 Research Hypothesis 1.6 Justification for the Study CHAPTER TWO REVIEW OF LITERATURE 2.1 Introduction and Background issues related to the emergence of the problem of study 2.2 Epidemiological Review 2.3 Theoretical Review 2.4 Conceptual Review 2.5 Empirical Review 2.6 Conceptual Framework related to the subject/theme of the study CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY 3.1 Study Design 3.2 Population and the Study site 3.3 Sample Size and Sampling Techniques for the Study 3.4 Variables and Hypothesis Testing Procedures 3.5 Information about Instrument used for the Study 3.6 Validity and Reliability of the Instrument standardization Procedures 3.7 Data Collection for the Study 3.8 Ethical Issues Involved in the Study 3.9 Data Analysis Procedure CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS 4.1 Short Introduction 4.2 Frequency Distribution and Summaries of Descriptive Statistics of Variables 4.3 Results of Hypothesis Tested 4.4 Other Results CHAPTER FIVE DISCUSSIONS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 5.1 Short Introduction to review purpose of conducting the study 5.2 Discussion regarding the outcome of the study guided by the research questions 5.3 Implications of Findings in the study in the context of literature reviewed 5.4 Distinct Contributions of the Study to body of Knowledge 5.5 Conclusions 5.6 Recommendations REFERENCES (APA Style 6th Edition) APPENDICES. Public health ethics deals with moral aspects of development, implementation, teaching, and research of public health. Public health practitioners have always been aware of the ethical dimension of their field, but public health ethics as a subdiscipline of bioethics has emerged only at the end of the last century, and it is still a young and unsettled field. Public health ethics studies various theories of ethics, which guide or could guide public health actions. Practical ethical decision making can be facilitated by applying one or more public health ethics frameworks. Public health encompasses a wide spectrum of activiti