Overview
- Presents an essential question that needs to be answered in order to estimate the burden of disease in any population: What is the size of a hard-to-reach / unobserved populations at risk for a disease?
- Provides an overview of the different methods to estimate the size of hard-to-reach populations, with an extensive focus on the network scale-up method
- Introduces a network scale-up method which is a promising method to estimate the size of hard-to-reach populations at both the local and national levels and does not require direct contact with members of hard-to-reach populations, and is much more feasible than many others
- Features details on how to design, implement, analyze, triangulate results, and extrapolate findings to subnational and national levels using real-world examples of network scale-up projects
- Is full of real-world examples with appendices that include analysis code in R, Stata, and Excel
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1333)
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The book discusses methods to collect, analyze, and adjust results and presents methods to triangulate and finalize PSEs.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Methods in Epidemiology
Book Subtitle: Population Size Estimation
Editors: George Rutherford
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75464-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75463-1Published: 03 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75466-2Published: 04 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75464-8Published: 02 August 2021
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 72
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour