Partnership working
Chapter Seven. Partnership working Key points • Defining partnership working • Types of partnerships • The impetus for collaboration • Understanding effective partnership working OVERVIEW Partnership working or collaboration is…
Tackling health inequalities
Chapter Five. Tackling health inequalities Key points • Definition and scope of inequalities • The link between social and health inequalities • Tackling inequalities: policies and strategies • Tackling inequalities:…
Research for public health and health promotion
Chapter Two. Research for public health and health promotion Key points • Nature of research • Positivist and interpretivist paradigms • Research for public health and health promotion: – Lived…
The Research Proposal: Communicating Research Findings
Introduction This chapter is linked to the dissemination of findings section of the web program. Unlike the previous chapters in this book, it is not devoted to the theory behind…
The Research Proposal: Analysing Data
Introduction This chapter is linked to the analysing data section of the web program. As well as describing how you intend collecting the data for your research study in your…
The Research Proposal: Developing the Research Question
Introduction We continue with the research process by addressing the research question or problem to be investigated. From now on, the chapters are linked very closely to the web program,…
Philosophical Assumptions
Introduction This chapter introduces you to the philosophical assumptions, or set of beliefs, that underlie the research process. Philosophy You have come across this word ‘philosophy’ several times in chapter…
The Research Proposal: Collecting Data
Introduction This chapter is linked to the data collection section of the web program. ‘All research relies on data to underpin new discoveries or discussions of well-established trains of thought….
The Research Proposal: Searching and Reviewing the Literature
Introduction If you have been working through the accompanying web program, you will now have your research question (an actual one or a virtual one) and included it as part…
Research and Allied Concepts
Introduction This book is designed to develop your appreciation of some of the key features of research methodologies and approaches. By completing the exercises in this book, you will gain…
