A Content Analysis of Questions Generated by Public Health Practitioners in New Mexico: Preliminary Results

Richard Carr
Jonathan Eldredge

poster presented at New Mexico Public Health Association Annual Meeting April 6, 2006.

Abstract

Purpose: To classify public health professionals' naturally-occurring questions (information needs) during a six-week study period according to the (1) Evidence-Based Public Health (EBPH) question typology; and (2) the University of Massachusetts Lamar Soutter Library's public health subject typology.