Researching health : qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods /: qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mike Saks and Judith Allsop.
• Other Names: Saks, Mike; Allsop, Judy, 1938-
• Contents: Introduction: the context for researching health / Mike Saks and Judith Allsop -- Competing paradigms and health research: design and process / Alex Broom and Evan Willis -- Doing a literature review in health / Kathryn Jones -- Using documents in health research / Andy Alaszewski -- Unstructured and semi-structured interviews in 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 -- Health research sampling methods / Peter Davis, Alastair Scott and Martin von Randow -- 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 -- Governance and ethics in health research / Priscilla Alderson -- Researching complementary and alternative medicine / Janet Richardson and Mike Saks -- Researching the health of ethnic minority groups / Mark R.D. Johnson -- Gender and health research / Ellen Kuhlmann and Ellen Annandale -- Public health research / Stephen Gillam, Penny Cavenagh, and Peter Bradley -- Involving the user in health research / Sophie Hill -- Comparative health research / Viola Burau -- Mixed methods and multidisciplinary research in health care / Jonathan Tritter -- The research process and writing up health research / Judith Allsop and Mike Saks -- Disseminating and using health research / Mike Saks and Judith Allsop.
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (504 pages)
• Subjects: 610.721; Health -- Research -- Methodology; Medicine -- Research -- Methodology; Health Services Research -- methods; Research Design
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446271834; 1446271838
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.