TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bowling,Ann
TI  - Research methods in health: investigating health and health services 
SN  - 0335206441 (hbk.)
AV  - RA440.85 .B69 2002
U1  - 362.1/07/2 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Buckingham, Philadelphia
PB  - Open University Press
KW  - Public health
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Community health services
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Investigating health services and health: the scope of research--Evaluating health services: multidisciplinary collaboration--Social research on health: sociological and psychological concepts and approaches
--Health needs and their assessment: demography and epidemiology--Costing health services: health economics--Philosophy, theory and practice of research--Philosophical framework of measurement--Principles of research--Quantitative research: sampling and research methods--Sample size and sampling of quantitative research--Quantitative research: surveys--Quantitative research: experiments and other analytic methods of investigation--Sample selection and group assignment methods in experiments and other analytic methods--Tools of quantitative research--Data collection methods in quantitative research: questionnaires, interviews and their response rates--Questionnaire design--Techniques of survey interviewing--Preparation of quantitative data for coding and analysis--Qualitative and combined research methods, and their analysis--Unstructured and structured observational studies--Unstructured interviewing and focus groups--Other methods using both qualitative and quantitative approaches: case studies, consensus methods, action research and document research
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/mh051/2001045769.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/mh051/2001045769.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/mh051/2001045769.html
ER  -