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Research methods in health : investigating health and health services / Ann Bowling.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Maidenhead, England ; New York, NY : McGraw Hill/Open University Press, 2009.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xiii, 525 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780335233649 (pb)
  • 0335233643 (pb)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RA440.85 .B69 2009
Contents:
Sect. 1. Investigating health services and health: the scope of research: Ch. 1. Evaluating health services: multidisciplinary collaboration -- Ch. 2. Social research on health: sociological and psychological concepts and approaches -- Health needs and their assessment: demography and epidemiology -- Costing health services: health economics -- Sect. II. The philosophy, theory and practice of research: Ch. 5. The philosophical framework of measurement -- Ch. 6. The principles of research --
Sect. III. Quantitative research: sampling and research methods: Ch. 7. Sample size and sampling for quantitative research -- Ch. 8. Quantitative research: surveys -- Ch. 9. Quantitative research: experiments and other analytical methods of investigation -- Ch. 10. Sample selection and group assignment methods in experiments and other analytic methods --
Sect. IV. The tools of quantitative research: Ch. 11. Data collection methods in quantitative research: questionnaires, interviews and their response rates -- Ch. 12. Questionnaire design -- Ch. 13. Techniques of survey interviewing -- Ch. 14. Preparation of quantitative data for coding and analysis -- Sect. V. Qualitative and combined research methods, and their analysis: Ch. 15. Unstructured and structured observational studies -- Ch. 16. Unstructured interviewing and focus groups -- Ch. 17. Other methods using both qualitative and quantitative approaches: case studies, consensus methods, action research and document research.
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Sect. 1. Investigating health services and health: the scope of research: Ch. 1. Evaluating health services: multidisciplinary collaboration -- Ch. 2. Social research on health: sociological and psychological concepts and approaches -- Health needs and their assessment: demography and epidemiology -- Costing health services: health economics -- Sect. II. The philosophy, theory and practice of research: Ch. 5. The philosophical framework of measurement -- Ch. 6. The principles of research --

Sect. III. Quantitative research: sampling and research methods: Ch. 7. Sample size and sampling for quantitative research -- Ch. 8. Quantitative research: surveys -- Ch. 9. Quantitative research: experiments and other analytical methods of investigation -- Ch. 10. Sample selection and group assignment methods in experiments and other analytic methods --

Sect. IV. The tools of quantitative research: Ch. 11. Data collection methods in quantitative research: questionnaires, interviews and their response rates -- Ch. 12. Questionnaire design -- Ch. 13. Techniques of survey interviewing -- Ch. 14. Preparation of quantitative data for coding and analysis -- Sect. V. Qualitative and combined research methods, and their analysis: Ch. 15. Unstructured and structured observational studies -- Ch. 16. Unstructured interviewing and focus groups -- Ch. 17. Other methods using both qualitative and quantitative approaches: case studies, consensus methods, action research and document research.

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