Handbook.of.Research.Methods.in.Health.Jun.2005.pdf

HANDBOOK OF HEALTH RESEARCH METHODS

Investigation, Measurement and Analysis

Handbook of

Health research methods

• Which research method should I use to evaluate services?

• How do I design a questionnaire?

• How do I conduct a systematic review of research?

This handbook helps researchers to plan, carry out, and analyse health

research, and evaluate the quality of research studies. The book takes

a multidisciplinary approach to enable researchers from different

disciplines to work side-by-side in the investigation of population

health, the evaluation of health care, and in health care delivery.

Investigation, measurement and analysis

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, sociolo-

gy, socio-biology, medicine and epidemiology. However, the book

also appeals to health professionals who wish to broaden their knowl-

edge of research methods in order to make effective policy and prac-

tice 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.

Ann Bowling is Professor of Health Services Research in the

Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences at University

College London, and has a part secondment to the MRC Health

Services Research Collaboration, University of Bristol. Her other

publications with Open University Press include: Measuring Disease

(2001), Research Methods in Health (2002) and Measuring Health

(2004).

Shah Ebrahim is Professor of Epidemiology of Ageing and Head of the

Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, and also Honorary

Professor of Epidemiology at University College London. He is coordi-

nating editor of the Cochrane Heart Group and co-editor of the

International Journal of Epidemiology. He is widely published in the

fields of geriatric medicine, stroke and cardiovascular epidemiology.

Cover design: Kate Prentice

Edited by

Ann Bowling and Shah Ebrahim

HANDBOOK OF HEALTH

RESEARCH METHODS

HANDBOOK OF HEALTH

RESEARCH METHODS

Investigation, measurement and

analysis

Edited by Ann Bowling and

Shah Ebrahim

Open University Press

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First published 2005

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A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library

ISBN–10: 0 335 21460 6 (pb) 0 335 21461 4 (hb)

ISBN–13: 978 0335 214600 (pb) 978 0335 2146 1 7 (hb)

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