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 design enterprise. In addition, three new studies based on national, international, and state and local surveys—the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, California Health Interview Survey, and National Dental Malpractice Survey—are detailed that illustrate the range of design alternatives available at each stage of developing a survey and provide a sound basis for choosing among them.

Product Description: Reinventing Public Health offers guidance for translating the growing body of research on the fundamental social, economic, and ecological determinants of health into innovative programs and policies to improve the health of populations.

Product Description: This upcoming third edition defines and illustrates the measurement and relevance of effectiveness, efficiency, and equity as criteria for evaluating healthcare system performance. Specific examples of the application of health services research in addressing contemporary health policy problems at the national, state, and local level are presented...read more

A Look at High Risk Groups The characteristics and needs of all groups who are high risk--the homeless, immigrants, people with AIDS, alcohol and substance abusers, and victims of domestic or other violence--are illustrated in this comprehensive reference guide. The author gives a systematic and cross-cutting overview of the issues that affect all these groups--whether physical, mental, or socioeconomic--and discusses the steps necessary to achieve a community-oriented health policy that can be effective in decreasing their vulnerability.

Product Description: Book by Aday, Lu Ann, Begley, Charles E., Lairson, David R., Slater, Carl H.

Product Description: Book by Aday, Lu Ann, Aitken, Marlene J., Wegener, Donna Hope

Product Description: Book by Aday, Lu Ann, Andersen, Ronald M., Loevy, Sara Segal, Kremer, Barbara

Product Description: This is an important study of health care in America, which was conducted by the Center for Health Administration Studies, University of Chicago. Who, it asks, has access to health care and at what price? A large sample of people from various groups, including those with low incomes, and ethnic and rural groups, answered questions on such topics as the availability of doctor appointments and emergency care, waiting time in doctors' offices, and confidence in the doctor's ability...read more