Designing and conducting health surveys a comprehensive guide
Designing and Conducting Health Surveys is written for students, teachers, researchers, and anyone who conducts health surveys. This third edition of the standard reference in the field draws heavily on the most recent methodological research on survey design and the rich storehouse of insights and implications provided by cognitive research on question and questionnaire design in particular. This important resource presents a total survey error framework that is a useful compass for charting the dangerous waters between systematic and random errors that inevitably accompany the survey
1 online resource (545 p.)
9781118046678, 9786610448272, 9780787983857, 1118046676, 6610448272, 0787983853
1328438795
DESIGNING AND CONDUCTING HEALTH SURVEYS; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; THE AUTHORS; Chapter 1: THINKING ABOUT TOPICS FOR HEALTH SURVEYS; Chapter 2: MATCHING THE SURVEY DESIGN TO SURVEY OBJECTIVES; Chapter 3: DEFINING AND CLARIFYING THE SURVEY VARIABLES; Chapter 4: THINKING THROUGH THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VARIABLES; Chapter 5: CHOOSING THE METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION; Chapter 6: DECIDING WHO WILL BE IN THE SAMPLE; Chapter 7: DECIDING HOW MANY WILL BE IN THE SAMPLE; Chapter 8: GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR FORMULATING QUESTIONS; Chapter 9: FORMULATING QUESTIONS ABOUT HEALTH Chapter 10: FORMULATING QUESTIONS ABOUT DEMOGRAPHICS AND BEHAVIORChapter 11: FORMULATING QUESTIONS ABOUT KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES; Chapter 12: GUIDELINES FOR FORMATTING THE QUESTIONNAIRE; Chapter 13: MONITORING AND CARRYING OUT THE SURVEY; Chapter 14: PREPARING THE DATA FOR ANALYSIS; Chapter 15: PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING THE ANALYSIS OF THE DATA; Chapter 16: WRITING THE RESEARCH REPORT; Resource A: PERSONAL INTERVIEW SURVEY: UNICEF MULTIPLE INDICATOR CLUSTER SURVEY (MICS-2)-END-DECADE STUDY; Resource B: TELEPHONE INTERVIEW SURVEY: CALIFORNIA HEALTH INTERVIEW SURVEY (CHIS)-2001 Resource C: MAIL QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY: NATIONAL DENTAL MALPRACTICE SURVEYResource D: SELECTED SOURCES ON HEALTH SURVEYS; Resource E: SELECTED EXAMPLES OF HEALTH SURVEYS; REFERENCES; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
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