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| Description |
"an ideal set text" Angela Scriven, Course Leader, Brunel University
Handbook of Health Research Methods is an essential tool for researchers and postgraduate students taking masters courses, or undertaking doctoral programmes, in health services evaluation, health sciences, health management, public health, nursing, sociology, socio-biology, medicine and epidemiology. However, the book also appeals to health professionals who wish to broaden their knowledge of research methods in order to make effective policy and practice decisions. Contributors: Joy Adamson, Geraldine Barrett, Jane P. Biddulph, Ann Bowling, Sara Brookes, Jackie Brown, Simon Carter, Michel P. Coleman, Paul Cullinan, George Davey Smith, Paul Dieppe, Jenny Donovan, Craig Duncan, Shah Ebrahim, Vikki Entwistle, Clare Harries, Lesley Henderson, Kelvyn Jones, Olga Kostopoulou, Sarah J. Lewis, Richard Martin, Martin McKee, Graham Moon, Ellen Nolte, Alan O?Rourke, Ann Oakley, Tim Peters, Tina Ramkalawan, Caroline Sanders, Mary Shaw, Andrew Steptoe, Jonathan Sterne, Anne Stiggelbout, S.V. Subramanian, Kate Tilling, Liz Twigg, Suzanne Wait. |
| Author Biography |
Shah Ebrahim is an epidemiologist with a clinical background in Geriatric Medicine and holds a Professorship in Epidemiology of Ageing in the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol and is honorary professor of epidemiology at University College London. He is coordinating editor of the Cochrane Heart Group and co-editor of the International Journal of Epidemiology. He is the author of books on geriatric medicine, stroke and epidemiology of ageing. |
| Table of Contents |
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 |
