Research methods in health
Subtitle: investigating health and health services
By: Ann Bowling.
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Buckingham; Briston, PA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Public health -- Research -- Methodology; Community health services -- Research -- Methodology
Description: Comprehensive guide to research methods in health. Describes the range of methods that can be used to study and evaluate health and health care. Chapters on multidisciplinary collaboration, social research on health, health needs and their assessment, costing health services, philosophy and principles of research, quantitative methods and tools, qualitative and combined research methods, other methods using both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [394]-421) and index.