In our information-crazy, never-out-of-touch world, it’s becoming harder and harder to find out who we are and what we do.That’s the ironic truth facing epidemiologists around the country.The popularity of cellular telephones, an increasingly mobile population, rising expenses, flat budgets and new insights into ways people can answer a question differently depending on how it’s asked — all are conspiring to make health surveys more difficult.To read this report in full in The Washington Post, see www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/11/AR2009011102082.html.
Cellphones’ Growth Does a Number on Health Research
In our information-crazy, never-out-of-touch world, it’s becoming harder and harder to find out who we are and what we do. That’s the ironic truth facing epidemiologists around the country.