Research Methods Community Medicine 6e

ISBN-13: 9780470986615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 432 str.

J. H. Abramson; Z. H. Abramson

Opis

• A simple and systematic guide to the planning and performance of investigations concerned with health and disease and with health care
• Offers researchers help in choosing a topic and to think about shaping objectives and ideas and to link these with the appropriate choice of method
• Fully updated with new sections on the use of the Web and computer programmes freely available in the planning, performance or analysis of studies

Spis treści

Preface

1. First steps

2. Types of investigation

3. Stages of an investigation

4. Formulating the objectives

5. The objectives of evaluative studies

6. The study population

7. Control groups

8. Sampling

9. Selecting cases and controls for case–control studies

10. The variables

11. Defining the variables

12. Definitions of diseases

13. Scales of measurement

14. Composite scales

15. Methods of collecting data

16. Reliability

17. Validity

18. Interviews and self–administered questionnaires

19. Constructing a questionnaire 

20. Surveying the opinions of a panel: consensus methods

21. The use of documentary sources

22. Planning the records 

23. Planning the handling of data

24. Pretests and other preparations

25. Collecting the data

26. Statistical analysis 

27. Interpreting the findings 

28. Making sense of associations

29. Application of the study findings

30. Writing a report 

31. Rapid epidemiological methods

32. Clinical trials

33. Programme trials

34. Community–oriented primary care

35. Using the Web for health research

Appendix A Community appraisal: a checklist 

Appendix B Random numbers

Appendix C Free computer programs

Index

O autorze

J.H. Abramson, Emeritus Professor of Social Medicine, The Hebrew University–Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem.
Author of five previous editions of the formerly titled Survey Methods in Community Medicine and Making Sense of Data with OUP.

Z.H. Abramson, Beit Hakerem Community Clinic (Clalit Health Services) and Department of Family Medicine, The Hebrew University–Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem.

Blurb

This is the sixth edition of Survey Methods in Community Medicine, which has established itself as a standard guide to the design, conduct, and analysis of studies concerned with health, disease, and health care.

It is written for students and practitioners of community medicine and public health (epidemiologists, family physicians, nurses, health educators, administrators, and others) who are interested in planning investigations of groups and populations, such as health surveys, cohort studies, comparisons of cases and controls, prophylactic and therapeutic trials, and other epidemiological and evaluative research.  The book may also be helpful to non–researchers who wish to enhance their capacity for the judicious appraisal of medical literature.

It is a step by step guide to the design, conduct and analysis of these studies, and assumes little prior knowledge, but has copious notes and references for the benefit of readers who wish to learn more.

This edition has been revised and updated throughout, with the addition of –

• A new chapter on the use of the Web in health research.
• A guide to free computer programs for use in the planning, performance, and analysis of studies.