Researching health : qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods /: qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mike Saks and Judith Allsop.
• Other Names: Saks, Mike; Allsop, Judy, 1938-
• Contents: PART ONE: CONDUCTING HEALTH RESEARCH; Introduction: The Context for Researching Health - Mike Saks and Judith Allsop; Competing Paradigms and Health Research - Alex Broom and Evan Willis; Doing a Literature Review in Health - Kathryn Jones; PART TWO: QUALITATIVE METHODS AND HEALTH; Using Documents in Health Research - Andy Alaszewski; Unstructured Interviews and Health Research - Jacqueline Low; Participant Observation in Health Research - David Hughes; The Use of Focus Groups in Research into Health - Judith Green; Action Research and Health - Heather Waterman; PART THREE: QUANTITATIVE METHODS AND HEALTH; Health Research Sampling Methods - Peter Davis and Alastair Scott; Quantitative Survey Methods in Health Research - Michael Calnan; Statistical Methods for Health Data Analysis - George Argyrous; Randomized Controlled Trials - George Lewith and Paul Little; Experimental Methods in Health Research - A.Niroshan Siriwardena; The Use of Economics in Health Research - Alan Maynard; PART FOUR: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN RESEARCHING HEALTH; Governance and Ethics in Health Research - Priscilla Alderson; Mixed Methods and Multidisciplinary Research in Health Care - Jonathan Tritter; Researching Orthodox and Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Janet Richardson and Mike Saks; Researching the Health of Ethnic Minority Groups - Mark R.D. Johnson; Involving the Consumer in Health Research - Sophie Hill; Comparative Health Research - Viola Burau; PART FIVE: DISSEMINATING HEALTH RESEARCH; Writing Up Health Research and Getting Published - Judith Allsop and Mike Saks;
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (432 pages)
• Subjects: 610.72; Health -- Research -- Methodology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446203682; 1446203689
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