Research methods in health : investigating health and health services / Ann Bowling.
Material type: TextPublisher: Maidenhead, Berkshire, England New York, NY Open University Press Mc-Graw Hill Education 2014Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xvii, 512 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cmContent type:- text
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- unmediated
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- 9780335262748 (pbk.) :
- 0335262740 (paperback)
- 362.10721 23
- RA440.85 .B69 2014
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Previous edition: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 principles of research -- Section III: 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 -- Section IV: 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 Section V Qualitative and mixed research methods -- Unstructured and structured observational studies -- Unstructured interviewing -- Focus groups -- Mixed research approaches.
Bowling describes the range of methods that can be used to study and evaluate health and health care. Designed for students in a range of health care disciplines, this text is also suitable for those who need to apply research findings in practice.
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