Research methods in health : investigating health and health services. / Ann Bowling.
Material type: TextPublisher: Maidenhead : Open University Press, McGraw-Hill Education, 2014Edition: 4th edDescription: xix, 512 p. : 25 cmISBN: 9780335262748 (pbk); 0335262740 (pbk)Subject(s): Public health -- Research -- Methodology | Community health services -- Research -- Methodology | Research -- DesignLOC classification: RA440.85,B69Online resources: Table of contentsItem type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes glossary, bibliographical references and index.
Contents: SECTION I 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 SECTION II The philosophy, theory and practice of research The philosophical framework of measurement -- The principle of research SECTION III Quantitative research: sampling and research methods: 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 SECTION IV 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 SECTION V Qualitative and mixed research methods Unstructured and structured observational studies -- Unstructured interviewing -- Focus groups -- Mixed research approaches
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