(P/B) RESEARCH METHODS IN HEALTH
INVESTIGATING HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES
BOWLING ANNΚωδ. Πολιτείας: 3063-0145
Παρουσίαση
This bestselling book provides an accessible introduction to the concepts and practicalities of research methods in health and health services. This new edition has been extensively re-worked and expanded and now includes expanded coverage of:Qualitative methods
Social research
Evaluation methodology
Mixed methods
Secondary data analysis
Literature reviewing and critical appraisal
Evidence based practice
Covering all core methodologies in detail the book looks at the following kinds of health research:
health needs
morbidity and mortality trends and rates
costing health services
sampling for survey research
cross-sectional and longitudinal survey design
experimental methods and techniques of group assignment
questionnaire design
interviewing techniques
coding and analysis of quantitative data
methods and analysis of qualitative observational studies
unstructured interviewing
The book is grounded in the author's career as a researcher on health and health service issues, and the valuable experience this has provided in meeting the challenges of research on people and organisations in real life settings.
Research Methods in Health, Fourth Edition is an essential companion for students and researchers of health and health services, health clinicians and policy-makers with responsibility for applying research findings and judging the soundness of research. (From the publisher)
Περιεχόμενα
Preface to the fourth editionAcknowledgements
Section I Investigating health services and health: the scope of research
1 Evaluating health services: multidisciplinary collaboration
2 Social research on health: sociological and psychological concepts and approaches
3 Quality of life: concepts, measurements and patient perception
4 Health needs and their assessment: demography and epidemiology
5 Costing health services: health economics
Section II The philosophy, theory and practice of research
6 The philosophical framework of measurement
7 The principles of research
Section III Quantitative research: sampling and research methods
8 Sample size and sampling for quantitative and qualitative research
9 Quantitative research: surveys
10 Quantitative research: experiments and other analytic methods of investigation
11 Sample selection and group assignment methods in experiments and other analytic methods
Section IV The tools of quantitative research
12 Data collection methods in quantitative research: questionnaires, interviews and their response rates
13 Questionnaire design
14 Techniques of survey interviewing
15 Preparation of quantitative data for coding and analysis
Section V Qualitative and mixed research methods
16 Unstructured and structured observational studies
17 Unstructured interviewing
18 Focus groups
19 Mixed research approaches
Glossary
References
Index
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