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This new edition of Ann Bowling's well-known and highly respected text has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect key methodological developments in health research. It is a comprehensive, easy to read, guide to the range of methods used to study and evaluate health and health services. It describes the concepts and methods used by the main disciplines involved in health research, including: demography, epidemiology, health economics, psychology and sociology. With new material on topics such as cluster randomization, utility analyses, patients' preferences, and perception of risk, the text is aimed at students and researchers of health and health services.
| ISBN | 0335206433 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780335206438
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 970 | | Publisher | Open University Press | | Published in | Milton Keynes | | Imprint | Open University Press | | Previous ISBN | 9780335198856 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 238 | | Publication date | 01 Jan 2002 | | Width (mm) | 170 | | Library of Congress | RA440.85.B, RA440.85.B | | Spine width (mm) | 29 | | DEWEY | 362.1072 | | Academic level | Tertiary education | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Alternative ISBN | 9780335206445 | | Pages | 501 | |
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| | | Preface | | | | | | Acknowledgements | | | | Sect. I | | Investigating health services and health: the scope of research | | 1 | | 1 | | Evaluating health services: multidisciplinary collaboration | | 5 | | 2 | | Social research on health: sociological and psychological concepts and approaches | | 17 | | 3 | | Health needs and their assessment: demography and epidemiology by Ann Bowling and Ian Rees Jones | | 54 | | 4 | | Costing health services: health economics by Ann Bowling and Ian Rees Jones | | 89 | | Sect. II | | The philosophy, theory and practice of research | | 115 | | 5 | | The philosophical framework of measurement | | 117 | | 6 | | The principles of research | | 133 | | Sect. III | | Quantitative research: sampling and research methods | | 163 | | 7 | | Sample size and sampling for quantitative research | | 165 | | 8 | | Quantitative research: surveys | | 193 | | 9 | | Quantitative research: experiments and other analytic methods of investigation | | 215 | | 10 | | Sample selection and group assignment methods in experiments and other analytic methods | | 237 | | Sect. IV | | The tools of quantitative research | | 255 | | 11 | | Data collection methods in quantitative research: questionnaires, interviews and their response rates | | 257 | | 12 | | Questionnaire design | | 273 | | 13 | | Techniques of survey interviewing | | 310 | | 14 | | Preparation of quantitative data for coding and analysis | | 335 | | Sect. V | | Qualitative and combined research methods, and their analysis | | 351 | | 15 | | Unstructured and structured observational studies | | 355 | | 16 | | Unstructured interviewing and focus groups | | 377 | | | More... | | |
"This is an excellent text to aid any Nurse in getting to grips with the subject of research on an accessible but relevant level." -- Accident & Emergency Nursing Accident and Emergency Nursing 20031028  Be the first to write a customer review
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