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PUBH 5315: Theoretical Foundations of Health Behavior and Public Health

What if my Topic is too Broad?

Sometimes it is not that you do not have a research topic but rather that your research question is yet too broad. For example, perhaps you know you are interested in maternal health. Yet that topic is much too broad. You need to think of what aspects, approaches, or populations you would like to focus on in terms of maternal health. One excellent approach to doing this is to perform a simple search, limiting to most recent works, and look for recurrent themes.

a picture of the search results from a search on "maternal health"

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