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This is the first text to advance beyond traditional methods of research about promoting community health by presenting a new paradigm for emerging methodologies that integrate qualitative and quantitative research methods. Written for graduate students of public health and practicing researchers alike, the book highlights new technologies and methodologies that facilitate a more fluid use of integrated methods and interdisciplinary expertise. This new paradigm stresses the effects of ""place""--socioeconomic disadvantage, access to health care, quality of housing--as having great relevance

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This study aims at understanding the performance of primary health care providers and the variables driving this performance using the World Development Report (WDR) 2004 accountability framework. The study is primarily based on quantitative surveys at the level of primary health care facilities, health care personnel, and households in their vicinity. These surveys were implemented in four states: Bauchi, Cross River, Kaduna, and Lagos. Despite large Government efforts, the delivery of quality primary health care services remains a challenge in the country. The condition of the infrastructure

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I. Investigating health services and health : the scope of research - 1. Evaluating health services : multidisciplinary collaboration - 2. Social research on health : sociological and psychological concepts and approaches - 3. Quality of life : concepts, measurements and patient perception - 4. Health needs and their assessment : demography and epidemiology - 5. Costing health services : health economics - II. The philosophy, theory and practice of research - 6. The philosophical framework of measurement - 7. The principles of research - Section III. Quantitative research : sampling and research methods - 8: Sample size and sampling for quantitative and qualitative research -9: Quantitative research : surveys - 9: Quantitative research : experiments and other analytic methods of investigation - 11. Sample selection and group assignment methods in experiments and other analytic methods - Section IV. The tools of quantitative research - 12. Data collection methods in quantitative research : questionnaires, interviews and their response rates - 13. Questionnaire design - 14. Techniques of survey interviewing - 15. Preparation of quantitative data for coding and analysis - Section IV. Qualitative and mixed research methods - 16. Unstructured and structured observational studies - 17. Unstructured interviewing - 18. Focus groups - 19. Mixed research approaches - References

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Community health services --- Rural health services --- Medical services, Rural --- Rural medical services --- Medical care --- Medicine, Rural --- Regional medical programs --- Rural health --- Neighborhood health centers --- Public health --- Sociology of environment --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Economic geography

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World health --- Community health services --- Community development --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Neighborhood health centers --- Public health --- Regional medical programs --- Global health --- International health --- Medical geography --- Administration --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- International cooperation