Research methods in health :
Bowling, Ann.
Research methods in health : investigating health and health services / Ann Bowling. - 3rd ed. - Maidenhead, England ; New York, NY : McGraw Hill/Open University Press, 2009. - xiii, 525 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes a glossary.
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.
9780335233649 (pb) 0335233643 (pb)
Public health--Research--Methodology.
Community health services--Research--Methodology.
Medical care--Research--Methodology.
Medicine--Research--Methodology.
Public health--Research--Methodology.
Community health services--Research--Methodology.
RA440.85 / .B69 2009
Research methods in health : investigating health and health services / Ann Bowling. - 3rd ed. - Maidenhead, England ; New York, NY : McGraw Hill/Open University Press, 2009. - xiii, 525 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes a glossary.
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.
9780335233649 (pb) 0335233643 (pb)
Public health--Research--Methodology.
Community health services--Research--Methodology.
Medical care--Research--Methodology.
Medicine--Research--Methodology.
Public health--Research--Methodology.
Community health services--Research--Methodology.
RA440.85 / .B69 2009