Research methods in health : investigating health and health services. / Ann Bowling.
Material type: TextPublisher: Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2009Edition: 3rd edDescription: xvii, 525 p. : 25 cmISBN: 0335206441 (hbk.); 0335206433 (pbk.)Subject(s): Public health -- Research -- Methodology | Community health services -- Research -- MethodologyDDC classification: 362.1/07/2 LOC classification: RA440.85 | .B69 2009Online resources: Publisher description | Contributor biographical information | Table of contentsItem type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:Investigating health services and health: the scope of research: Evaluating health services: multidisciplinary collaboration -- Social research on health: sociological and psychological concepts and approaches:Health and illness -- Social factors in illness and response to illness -- Models of health behaviour -- Health-related quality of life -- Interactions between health professionals and patients -- Health needs and their assessment:demography and epidemiology: The assessment of health needs -- Epidemiology -- The role of demography -- Costing health services: health economic -- The philosophy, theory and practice of research: The philosophical framework of measurement -- The principle of research -- Quantitative research: sampling and research methods: sample size and sampling of quantitative research: Calculation of sample size, statistical significance and sampling -- Methods of sampling -- Quantitative research: surveys: survey methods -- methods of analyzing change in longitudinal studies -- Quantitative research: Experiments and other analytic methods of investigation -- Sample selection and group assignment methods in experiments and other analytic methods -- The tools of quantitative research -- Data collection methods in quantitative research: questionnaire, interviews and their response rates -- Questionnaire design -- Techniques of survey interviewing -- Preparation of quantitative data for coding and analysis -- Qualitative and combined research methods and their analysis: Unstructured and structured observational studies -- Unstructured interview and focus group -- Focus groups -- Mixed research approaches: case studies -- Consensus methods -- Action research and rapid appraisal techniques -- Document research
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