Researching health : qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods / edited by Mike Saks and Judith Allsop

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