SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH METHODS

Social and Health Services Research Methods

Social and Health Services Research Methods

Introduction

In the 1960's, the areas of health and communal services research were conceived by blending some study parts at the National Institutes of Health to conceive the Health Services Research Study Section (Hoge, 2006). The HSR study part searched to characterize HSR as a distinct area of technical investigation at the intersection of public health and health care, acquainted by disciplinary perspectives. Since that time, the area has developed to encompass multiple disciplinary perspectives, encompassing methods from cognate disciplines such as economics, statistics, political science, sociology, ...