Studying the Organization and the Delivery of the Health Services

There is increasing recognition that advances in medicine are only part of the answer to better health care. These advances, together with rising expectations of health care users, mean that demands on the way we organize and deliver services will become greater. It is therefore essential that we advance our understanding and knowledge of how best to organize and deliver health services. This book, written by experienced teachers and researchers, introduces research methods from a wide range of social science disciplines and applies them to health service research. Each chapter takes a different research method or approach and provides: theoretical background; a description of the method; advice on how to use it; relevant examples; a discussion of the limitations of the method; a list of further reading. Research methods covered include: epidemiology; organizational psychology; action research; political science/policy analysis; organizational economics; historical methods and operational research. This book also looks at the issues in synthesizing evidence from qualitative research and non-experimental quantitative studies. This is a reader for researchers, students and research funders and provides an appropriate text for the growing number of courses in the multidisciplinary field of health services research.

ISBN 0415257638   Pages 240 ISBN13 9780415257633 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 476 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 235 Publication date 23 Aug 2001   Width (mm) 159 Library of Congress 01019651   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY 362.1068   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC21

		List of illustrations
		Notes on contributors
		Acknowledgements
1		Issues in studying the organisation and delivery of health services by Naomi Fulop and Pauline Allen and Aileen Clarke		1
2		Organisational studies by Ewan Ferlie		24
3		Micro-level qualitative research by Elizabeth Murphy		40
4		Epidemiological methods by Jeremy Grimshaw and Brenda Wilson and Marion Campbell		56
5		Organisational psychology by John Arnold		73
6		Policy analysis by Stephen Harrison		90
7		Economic evaluation by Mark Sculpher		107
8		Organisational economics by Diane Dawson		124
9		Historical research by Virginia Berridge		140
10		Operational research by Jonathan Rosenhead		154
11		Action research by Julienne Meyer		172
12		Synthesising research evidence by Nicholas Mays and Emilie Roberts and Jennie Popay		188
		Index		221

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