This revised and updated edition is an indespensable resource for health researchers. It draws on the most current findings in survey design, marketing research, health services research, and cognitive psychology to provide comprehensive guidance on designing and conducting health surveys. Special emphasis is placed on the complexities of the ever-changing health care environment.

Designing and Conducting Health Surveys: A Comprehensive Guide

Aday, Lu Ann

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jossey-Bass

This updated second edition of At Risk in America provides a detailed analysis of those key population groups most vulnerable to disease and injury in the United States today-including homeless persons, refugees and immigrants, people living with AIDS, alcohol and substance abusers, high-risk mothers and infants, victims of family or other violence, and the chronically or mentally ill. Lu Ann Aday reviews the major theories and knowledge concerning these at-risk groups and offers new approaches and methodologies for tracing the social determinants and societal influences on health. She examines the specific health needs and risks faced by these groups, their experience in the health care system, the current policies and programs that serve them, and the research and policy initiatives that might be undertaken to help reduce their vulnerability.

At Risk in America: The Health and Health Care Needs of Vulnerable Populations in the United States

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

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.

Science & Math

Cornelius, Llewellyn J.

Biological Sciences

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. One of the study′s most innovative features is its development of ways to measure health care needs.  ′...this book makes an important contribution to the fields of medical sociology and health services research.′ -- American Journal of Sociology

Health Care in the U.S.: Equitable for Whom?

Politics & Social Sciences

Andersen, Ronald

Fleming, Gretchen Voorhis

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

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

Evaluating the Medical Care System: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity

Begley, Charles E.

Lairson, David R.

Slater, Carl H.

Health Administration Pr

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

Pediatric Home Care: Results of a National Evaluation of Programs for Ventilator Assisted Children (Continuing Chas Research Series, No 36)

Aitken, Marlene J.

Wegener, Donna Hope

Pluribus Pr

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Designing and Conducting Health Surveys: A Comprehensive Guide (Jossey-Bass Health Series and the Jossey Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series)

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

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.

At Risk in America, 7 X 10: The Health and Health Care Needs of Vulnerable Populations in the United States

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Aday, Lu Ann. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Aday, Lu Ann