Lu A. Aday, Llewellyn J. Cornelius

Designing and Conducting Health Surveys

A Comprehensive Guide

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Designing and Conducting Health Surveys is written for students, teachers, researchers, and anyone who conducts health surveys. This third edition of the standard reference in the field draws heavily on the most recent methodological research on survey design and the rich storehouse of insights and implications provided by cognitive research on question and questionnaire design in particular. This important resource presents a total survey error framework that is a useful compass for charting the dangerous waters between systematic and random errors that inevitably accompany the survey design enterprise. In addition, three new studies based on national, international, and state and local surveys-the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, California Health Interview Survey, and National Dental Malpractice Survey-are detailed that illustrate the range of design alternatives available at each stage of developing a survey and provide a sound basis for choosing among them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 19617560000
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 187mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1015g
• ISBN-13: 9780787975609
• ISBN-10: 0787975605
• Artikelnr.: 20802603

Autorenporträt

LU ANN ADAY, PHD, is the Lorne Bain Distinguished Professor in Public Health and Medicine at the University of Texas School of Public Health. She is the author of many books, including Evaluating the Healthcare System: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity (1st ed., 1993; 2nd ed., 1998; 3rd ed., 2004); At Risk in America: The Health and Health Care Needs of Vulnerable Populations in the United States (1st ed., 1993; 2nd ed., 2001); and Reinventing Public Health: Policies and Practices for a Healthy Nation (2005). Dr. Aday is a fellow of AcademyHealth (formerly the Association for Health Services Research) and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. LLEWELLYN JOSEPH CORNELIUS, PHD, is Professor of Social Work, University of Maryland at Baltimore, School of Social Work. He is also Associate Director of the Institute for Human Services Policy. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Ghana-Legon, School of Public Health, Department of Sociology and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health. He also has been a fellow in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures, Tables, and Exhibits vii
Foreword by Steven B. Cohen xi
Preface xv
The Authors xxi
1 Thinking About Topics for Health Surveys 1
2 Matching the Survey Design to Survey Objectives 27
3 Defining and Clarifying the Survey Variables 48
4 Thinking Through the Relationships Between Variables 81
5 Choosing the Methods of Data Collection 100
6 Deciding Who Will Be in the Sample 124
7 Deciding How Many Will Be in the Sample 154
8 General Principles for Formulating Questions 194
9 Formulating Questions About Health 221
10 Formulating Questions About Demographics and Behavior 245
11 Formulating Questions About Knowledge and Attitudes 268
12 Guidelines for Formatting the Questionnaire 288
13 Monitoring and Carrying Out the Survey 311
14 Preparing the Data for Analysis 340
15 Planning and Implementing the Analysis of the Data 360
16 Writing the Research Report 391
Resource A: Personal Interview Survey: UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster
Survey (MICS-2)-End-Decade Study 405
Resource B: Telephone Interview Survey: California Health Interview Survey
(CHIS)-2001 407
Resource C: Mail Questionnaire Survey: National Dental Malpractice Survey
408
Resource D: Selected Sources on Health Surveys 433
Resource E: Selected Examples of Health Surveys 442
References 451
Name Index 495
Subject Index 505