Helps researchers to plan, carry out, and analyse health research, and evaluate the quality of research studies. This book is suitable for researchers and postgraduate students taking masters courses, or undertaking doctoral programmes, in health services evaluation, health sciences, health management, public health, nursing, and sociology.
Helps researchers to plan, carry out, and analyse health research, and evaluate the quality of research studies. This book is suitable for researchers and postgraduate students taking masters courses, or undertaking doctoral programmes, in health services evaluation, health sciences, health management, public health, nursing, and sociology.
Ann Bowling is Professor of Health Services Research at University College London. She specialises in quality of life measurement, research on ageing and equity of access to health services, and is author of best selling books on research methods and measurement including Measuring Disease, Measuring Health, and A handbook of Health Research Methods jointly with professor Shah Ebrahim (all published by OpenUP).
Inhaltsangabe
Section 1: Introduction 1. Introduction: research on health and health care 2. Describing and evaluating health systems Section 2: Multidisciplinary methods of investigation 3. Evidence based health care: systematic reviews 4. Critical appraisal 5. Features and designs of randomised and non-randomised controlled trials and non-randomised experimental designs 6. Epidemiological study designs in health care research and evaluation 7. Finding and using secondary data on the health and health care of populations 8. Quantitative social science: The survey 9. Approaches to qualitative data collection in social science 10. Combined qualitative and quantitative designs 11. Design and analysis of social intervention studies in health research 12. Area-based studies and the evaluation of multilevel influences on health outcomes 13. Mathematical models in health care 14. Economic evaluation of health care Section 3: Multidisciplinary research measurement 15. Psychological approaches to measuring and modelling clinical decision making 16. Approaches to measuring patients' decision making 17. Techniques of questionnaire design 18. Measuring health outcomes from the patient's perspective 19. Genetics, health and population genetics research 20. Tools of psychosocial biology and health care research Section 4: Data analysis 21. Key issues in the statistical analysis of quantitative data in research on health and health services 22. Key issues in the analysis of qualitative data on health services research Section 5. Essential issues to consider when conducting research 23. Involving service users in health services research 24. Ethical and political issues in the conduct of research 25. Training for research General glossary General further reading Index
Section 1: Introduction 1. Introduction: research on health and health care 2. Describing and evaluating health systems Section 2: Multidisciplinary methods of investigation 3. Evidence based health care: systematic reviews 4. Critical appraisal 5. Features and designs of randomised and non-randomised controlled trials and non-randomised experimental designs 6. Epidemiological study designs in health care research and evaluation 7. Finding and using secondary data on the health and health care of populations 8. Quantitative social science: The survey 9. Approaches to qualitative data collection in social science 10. Combined qualitative and quantitative designs 11. Design and analysis of social intervention studies in health research 12. Area-based studies and the evaluation of multilevel influences on health outcomes 13. Mathematical models in health care 14. Economic evaluation of health care Section 3: Multidisciplinary research measurement 15. Psychological approaches to measuring and modelling clinical decision making 16. Approaches to measuring patients' decision making 17. Techniques of questionnaire design 18. Measuring health outcomes from the patient's perspective 19. Genetics, health and population genetics research 20. Tools of psychosocial biology and health care research Section 4: Data analysis 21. Key issues in the statistical analysis of quantitative data in research on health and health services 22. Key issues in the analysis of qualitative data on health services research Section 5. Essential issues to consider when conducting research 23. Involving service users in health services research 24. Ethical and political issues in the conduct of research 25. Training for research General glossary General further reading Index
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