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• Title:Research methods in health : investigating health and health services / Ann Bowling.
  
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• Author/Creator:Bowling, Ann.
  
• Published/Created:Buckingham ; Philadelphia, PA : Open University Press, 2002.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA20.5 .B685 2002
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Public health--Research--Methodology.
  Community health services--Research--Methodology.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:xiv, 486 pages.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-478) and index.
  
• ISBN:0335206441 (hb)
  0335206433 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Sect. I. Investigating health services and health: the scope of research
  1. Evaluating health services: multidisciplinary collaboration
  2. Social research on health: sociological and psychological concepts and approaches
  3. Health needs and their assessment: demography and epidemiology / Ann Bowling and Ian Rees Jones
  4. Costing health services: health economics / Ann Bowling and Ian Rees Jones
  Sect. II. philosophy, theory and practice of research
  5. philosophical framework of measurement
  6. principles of research
  Sect. III. Quantitative research: sampling and research methods
  7. Sample size and sampling for quantitative research
  8. Quantitative research: surveys
  9. Quantitative research: experiments and other analytic methods of investigation
  10. Sample selection and group assignment methods in experiments and other analytic methods
  Sect. IV. tools of quantitative research
  11. Data collection methods in quantitative research: questionnaires, interviews and their response rates
  12. Questionnaire design
  13. Techniques of survey interviewing
  14. Preparation of quantitative data for coding and analysis
  Sect. V. Qualitative and combined research methods, and their analysis
  15. Unstructured and structured observational studies
  16. Unstructured interviewing and focus groups
  17. Other methods using both qualitative and quantitative approaches: case studies, consensus methods, action research and document research.