TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bowling,Ann
TI  - Research methods in health: investigating health and health services 
SN  - 9780335262748 (pbk.) :
AV  - RA440.85 .B69 2014
U1  - 362.10721 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, New York, NY
PB  - Open University Press, Mc-Graw Hill Education
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Research Design
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Health Services
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -