Part 1 book “Research methods in health” has contents: Evaluating health services - multidisciplinary collaboration, social research on health - sociological and psychological concepts and approaches, the philosophical framework of measurement, the principles of research, and other contents. | Research Methods in Health Investigating health and health services Fourth Edition Ann Bowling Research Methods in Health Research Methods in Health: Investigating Health and Health Services Fourth edition Ann Bowling Open University Press McGraw-Hill Education McGraw-Hill House Shoppenhangers Road Maidenhead Berkshire England SL6 2QL email: enquiries@ world wide web: and Two Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121-2289, USA First published 1997 Second edition published 2002 Third edition published 2009 First published in this fourth edition 2014 Copyright © Ann Bowling, 2014 All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher or a licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Details of such licences (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd of Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London, EC1N 8TS. A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-0-335-26274-8 ISBN-10: 0-335-26274-0 eISBN: 978-0-335-26275-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data CIP data applied for Typeset by Aptara, Inc. Fictitious names of companies, products, people, characters and/or data that may be used herein (in case studies or in examples) are not intended to represent any real individual, company, product or .