Mayara Cristina da Silva Santos, Flávia Lopes Gabani, Douglas Fernando Dias, Selma Maffei de Andrade, Alberto Durán González, Mathias Roberto Loch, Arthur Eumann Mesas
Longitudinal associations of changes in physical activity and TV viewing with chronic musculoskeletal pain in Brazilian schoolteachers
PloS one
public health policy researchers face persistent challenge identifying integrating relevant data particularly context us opioid crisis comprehensive approach crucial meet new workforce demand health policy health economics programs increasingly introducing data analysis data visualization skills skills facilitate data integration discovery linking multiple resources common linking strategies include individual aggregate level linking eg patient identifiers primary clinical data conceptual linking eg healthcare workforce state funding burnout rates secondary data often combination primary secondary datasets sought requiring additional skills example understanding metadata constructing interlinkages help improve skills developed 2step process using scoping method discover data network visualization interlink metadata results show new skills enable discovery relationships among data sources pertinent public policy research related opioid overdose crisis facilitate inquiry across heterogeneous data resources addition interactive network visualization introduces 1 conceptual approach drawing recent systematic review studies linked publications 2 aggregate approach constructed using publicly available datasets linked crosswalks novel metadata visualization techniques used teaching tool discovery method also extended public policy domains