Related Experiment Videos
Validity and reliability issues in published public health and social policy research
1CTB/McGraw-Hill, Monterey, CA, USA.
Journal of Health & Social Policy
|December 9, 1995
Abstract:
This paper reviews basic measurement concepts associated with objective instruments, argues for the importance of addressing the validity and reliability of instruments in articles reporting the results of empirical research, and discusses common measurement issues through examples observed in public health and social policy journals.