Lkt of Contributors v 'Guided Tour' of 'pedagogical features vil Part I Conducting Health Research 1 Introduction: The Context for Researching Health Mike Saks and Judith Allsop 2Competing Paradigms and Health Research Alex Broom andEvan Willis 3. Doling a Literature Review in Health 32 Kathryn Jones Part II Qualitative Methods and Health 53 4 Using Documents in Health Research 57 Atidy Alazzewski 5. Unstructured Interviews and Health Research 74 Jacquerline Low 6 Participant Observation in Health Research David Hughes 7The Use of Focus Groups in Research into Health 112 Judith Green 8Action Research and Health 133 Heather Waterman Part 111 Quantitative Methods and Health 153 9.Health Research Sampling Methods 155 Peter Davis and Alastair Scott 10 Quantitative Survey Methods in Health Research 174 Michael Calnan 11Statistical Methods for Health Data Analysis 157 George Argyrous 12 Randomized Controlled Trials 223 George Lewith and Paul Little 13Experimental Methods in Health Research 246 A. Ntroshan Ssrii 14 The Use of Economics in Health Research 265 Alan Maynard Part IVContemporary Issues in Researching Health 281 15 Governance and Ethics in Health Research 283 Priscilla Alderson 16Mixed Methods and Multidisciplinary Research in Health Care 301 Jonathan Tritter 17 Researching Orthodox and Complementary and Alternative Mcdieine 319 Janet Richardsart and Mike Saks 18 Researching the Health of Ethnic Minority Groups 336 Mark R.D. Johnson 19Involving the Consumer in Health Research 351 Sophie Hill 20Comparative Health Research 368 Viola Burau Part V Disseminating Health Research 385 21Writing Up Health Research and Getting Published 387 Judith Allsop and Mike Saks Glossary 409 Index 417