Ann Bowling, Shah Ebrahim

Handbook of Health Research Methods: Investigation, Measurement and Analysis

Ed. by Ann Bowling and Shah Ebrahim

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Higher Education / Open University Press
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 169mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1074g
• ISBN-13: 9780335214600
• ISBN-10: 0335214606
• Artikelnr.: 21377760

Autorenporträt

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