Child Health Services Research

Applications, Innovations, and Insights
Herausgeber: Sobo, Elisa J; Kurtin, Paul S

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Child Health Services Research offers a practical introduction to the foundations, primary methods, and applications of children's health services research. This valuable resource describes various approaches to children's health services research, shows how these approaches differ from methods used in relation to adult health, and demonstrates the value that can be added by outcomes research. In doing so, Child Health Services Research also examines various aspects of child health in the context of the household, hospital, health system, community, and policy arenas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 153mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9780787958756
• ISBN-10: 0787958751
• Artikelnr.: 22304244

Autorenporträt

Elisa J. Sobo, Ph.D., is a research scientist with the Center for Child Health Outcomes and Trauma Services at Children's Hospital in San Diego, and is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego's School of Medicine. Dr. Sobo has edited and authored numerous books and articles regarding the socio-cultural context of health, illness, and medicine. Paul S. Kurtin, M.D., is a pediatric nephrologist. He is vice-president for clinical innovations of the Center for Child Health Outcomes at Children's Hospital in San Diego. Dr. Kurtin is founding medical director of the Child Health Accountability Initiative a collaborative of fifteen children's hospitals working to define, measure, and improve health outcomes for hospitalized children.