Isabelle Bray & Stuart McClean 
Research Methods for Public Health [PDF ebook] 

Part 1: Quantitative Methods for Public Health
Chapter 1: Epidemiology
Chapter 2: Sampling
Chapter 3: Collecting Quantitative Data
Chapter 4: Quantitative Data Analysis
Chapter 5: Quality and Rigour in Quantitative Research
Part 2: Qualitative Methods for Public Health
Chapter 6: Methodological Approaches and Basic Principles
Chapter 7: Accessing and Selecting Cases in Qualitative Research
Chapter 8: Collecting Qualitative Data
Chapter 9: Qualitative Data Analysis
Chapter 10: Quality and Rigour in Qualitative Research
Part 3: Mixing it Up: Combining Methods and Evidence Synthesis in Public Health
Chapter 11: Mixed methods research and evaluation design
Chapter 12: Evidence synthesis approaches: Systematic reviews
Chapter 13: Evidence synthesis approaches: Meta-ethnography and realist synthesis
Part 4: Applying Research to Public Health Practice
Chapter 14: The Ethics of Public Health Research
Chapter 15: Writing up, Dissemination and Publication

Paul Pilkington is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health in the Department of Health and Social Sciences, Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences. He leads the Environment and Sustainability for Health Improvement research theme, based in the Public Health and Wellbeing Research Group. The theme advances research across the university on issues relating to healthy and sustainable environments, bringing together researchers from public health with those across the university and beyond.  Taking a socio-ecological approach to public health, Paul’s research interests centre on how the promotion of healthy and sustainable environments can impact on population level health and wellbeing. Paul has a particular interest in the relationship between the built environment and health, particularly issues relating to road safety (measures to reduce danger in the road environment) and spatial planning (the better consideration of health in the planning process).  Paul is an experienced teacher, and contributes to teaching on the highly successful MSc Public Health, and the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing programme, as well as other courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels across the university.  Paul is a Specialty Tutor on the Public Health Specialty Training Programme in the South West, leading the development and management of specialty training provision at UWE. He is also an Academic Supervisor, member of the Regional Training Committee, and an Assessor on the National Public Health Specialty Training Assessment Centre. Paul is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and has completed NHS higher specialist training in public health, being registered on the UK Register for Public Health Specialists. Paul is a reviewer for several international peer-reviewed journals, including Public Health, Journal of Public Health, Journal of Transport and Health, and Injury Prevention. Paul is also a member of the SHINE Health Integration Team in Bristol. Paul is Co-Primary Investigator in a major new project, funded by the Wellcome Trust, entitled Moving health and sustainability upstream into strategic urban development decision making.