ABSTRACT

First Published in 2001.  This is the first book to combine research methods from a range of social science disciplines and apply them to health service research. Health service delivery and organisation is a growing and increasingly important area of research not readily amenable to methods used to evaluate health technologies.

chapter 1|23 pages

Issues in studying the organisation and delivery of health services

Why study the organisation and delivery of health

chapter 2|16 pages

Organisational studies

chapter 5|17 pages

Organisational psychology

chapter 6|17 pages

Policy analysis

chapter 7|17 pages

Economic evaluation

chapter 8|16 pages

Organisational economics

chapter 9|14 pages

Historical research

chapter 10|18 pages

Operational research

chapter 11|16 pages

Action research