Bøker av Ann Bowling

First published in 1982, this title presents the results of a study of the experiences and attitudes of over 350 elderly widowed men and women, their GPs, relatives, friends, and neighbours, and considers the implications of the help the widowed received, or failed to receive, from those it was most likely that they would turn for support.

This textbook is an invaluable comprehensive guide to all of the major measures of health and quality of life.

Reviews disease specific measures of quality of life and, where relevant, popularly used symptom and single dimension scales. This book is suitable as a source book for researchers, medical and health care practitioners who are involved in the measurement of the outcome of health services.

Helps researchers to plan, carry out, and analyse health research, and evaluate the quality of research studies. This book is suitable for researchers and postgraduate students taking masters courses, or undertaking doctoral programmes, in health services evaluation, health sciences, health management, public health, nursing, and sociology.