Product Description

This new edition of Ann Bowling's well-known and highly respected text has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect key methodological developments in health research. It is a comprehensive, easy to read, guide to the range of methods used to study and evaluate health and health services. It describes the concepts and methods used by the main disciplines involved in health research, including: demography, epidemiology, health economics, psychology and sociology.

With new material on topics such as cluster randomization, utility analyses, patients' preferences, and perception of risk, the text is aimed at students and researchers of health and health services.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #116670 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Review
“This is an excellent text to aid any Nurse in getting to grips with the subject of research on an accessible but relevant level." – Accident & Emergency Nursing (Accident and Emergency Nursing )

About the Author
Ann Bowling is a social scientist and is currently Professor of Health Services Research in the Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences at University College London. She directs an active research programme and has both PhD and master's programmes, including the MRes in health services research and policy at UCL. She is also author of Measuring Health, A Review of Quality of Life Measurement Scales and Measuring Disease, A Review of Disease-Specific Quality of Life Measurement Scales, both published by the Open University Press.

Ian Rees Jones is Professor of Sociology of Health and Illness, St George's Hospital Medical School, London. He is also a social scientist with an extensive research background, and teaches on both undergraduate and post-graduate courses.

Customer Reviews

An extremely useful introductory guide to research methods
The text has over the past 3 years acted as a strong source of reference as I have been expected to carry out research within a health services context. It is useful both to managers,researchers clinicians working within the health context. The book helps at different levels i.e. from undertaking research involving patients through to beginning to evaluate a particular service.The book outlines and explains a wide range of different research methods from across the qualitative / quantitative spectrum.

I would recommend this book if you are being directly involved in research for the first time and a good source reference on your book shelf to help prompt questions of research proposals or projects you are expected to comment upon. For the trainee researcher working in health services it is highly recommended

excellent
very good. brilliant glossary at the end, as well as key points and questions at the end of every chapter. sections are clear and structured, and the style is friendly and honest. just misses a bit more content on qualitative data analysis

get it if you are going to do a research project in health sciences- bear in mind it is aimed exactly for that, so it may not be suitable for other purposes

Comprehensive and useful...
I like the book, it tells you all what you need about research methods, and makes all the destinctions a clinician might need to go out of the medical box into the wider aspects of health and health services. It still isn't what I would call a holiday reading, but who expects a book like that to be... Very good in dividing chapters that you will not need to read the whole book if you are looking for a piece of information.