Contents note continued: 13.Experimental Methods in Health Research / A. Nirosban Siriwardena -- 14.The Use of Economics in Health Research / Alan Maynard -- pt. IV Contemporary Issues in Researching Health -- 15.Governance and Ethics in Health Research / Priscilla Alderson -- 16.Researching Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Mike Saks -- 17.Researching the Health of Ethnic Minority Groups / Mark R.D. Johnson -- 18.Gender and Health Research / Ellen Annandale -- 19.Public Health Research / Peter Bradley -- 20.Involving the User in Health Research / Sophie Hill -- 21.Comparative Health Research / Viola Burau -- pt. V Applying Health Research -- 22.Mixed Methods and Multidisciplinary Research in Health Care / Jonathan Tritter -- 23.The Research Process and Writing Up Health Research / Mike Saks -- 24.Disseminating and Using Health Research / Judith Allsop.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Conducting Health Research -- 1.Introduction: The Context for Researching Health / Judith Allsop -- 2.Competing Paradigms and Health Research: Design and Process / Judith Allsop -- 3.Doing a Literature Review in Health / Kathryn Jones -- pt. II Qualitative Methods and Health -- 4.Using Documents in Health Research / Andy Alaszewski -- 5.Unstructured and Semi-structured Interviews in Health Research / Jacqueline Low -- 6.Participant Observation in Health Research / David Hughes -- 7.The Use of Focus Groups in Research into Health / Judith Green -- 8.Action Research and Health / Heather Waterman -- pt. III Quantitative Methods and Health -- 9.Health Research Sampling Methods / Martin von Randow -- 10.Quantitative Survey Methods in Health Research / Michael Calnan -- 11.Statistical Methods for Health Data Analysis / George Argyrous -- 12.Randomized Controlled Trials / Paul Little --