Research methods in health: investigating health and health services. / Ann Bowling.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York: McGraw Hill, 2014Edition: 4th edDescription: xix, 512p.: 25cmISBN: 9780335262748LOC classification: RA440.B69Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY nursing | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | Non-fiction | RA440.B69 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | NURS/338/17 |
Includes 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 -- Quality of life: concepts, measurements and patient perception -- Health needs and their assessment: demography and epidemiology -- Costing health services: health economics -- The Philosophy, theory and practice of research: The Philosophical framework of measurement -- The Principles of research -- Quantitative research: sampling and research methods: Sample size and sampling for quantitative and qualitative research -- Quantitative research: surveys -- 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: questionnaires, interviews and their response rates -- Questionnaire design -- Techniques of survey interviewing -- Preparation of quantitative data for coding and analysis -- Qualitative and mixed research methods: Unstructured and structured observational studies -- Unstructured interviewing -- Focus group -- Mixed research approaches.
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