Research Methods in Health Third Edition
INVESTIGATING HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES
‘The new edition of Research Methods in Health continues to provide an excellent broad based introduction to the subject. New or expanded sections, for example on the evaluation of complex interventions, mixed research methods, life history interviews, and socio-psychological theories make this third edition well worth purchasing. The content is clearly presented and at a suitable level for its intended audience of health professionals and post-graduate students in health and health-related social sciences.'
Virginia Berridge, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
This bestselling book provides an accessible introduction to the theoretical concepts and descriptive and analytic research methods used in health and health services.
The third edition has been thoroughly revised throughout to include updated references and boxed examples, with additional information on key methodological developments, among them:
• Complex interventions
• Mixed research methods
• Psychometrics
• Secondary data analysis
• Systematic reviews
• Pertinent social science concepts
The research methods described cover the assessment of health needs, morbidity and mortality trends and rates, costing health services, sampling for survey research, cross-sectional and longitudinal survey design, experimental methods and techniques of group assignment, questionnaire design, interviewing techniques, coding and analysis of quantitative data, methods and analysis of qualitative observational studies and types of unstructured interviewing.
Ann Bowling is Professor of Health Services Research at University College London, UK. She specialises in quality of life measurement, research on ageing and equity of access to health services, and is author of bestselling books on research methods and measurement including Measuring Disease, 2e, Measuring Health, 3e, and A Handbook of Health Research Methods jointly with Professor Shah Ebrahim (all published by Open University Press).