[afro-nets] Now Online: Designing and Conducting Health System Research Projects

[Dieter Neuvians MD <neuvians@mweb.co.za>]

Now Online: Designing and Conducting Health System Research Projects
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Vol. 1 and 2:
Proposal Development and Fieldwork & Data Analyses and Report 
Writing
 
Brownlee, A., Pathmanathan, I., Varkevisser, C.M.
Paperback 570 pp., 2004, English, ISBN 9068321501, Euro 45.00
 
Order online at:
http://www.kit.nl/frameset.asp?/publishers/html/book.asp&frnr=1&BookID=963
 
Or read/print both volumes online at:
http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-33010-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
and
http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-33012-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
 
 
Health Systems Research (HSR) has proven to be a useful tool for 
health decision makers at all levels over the past 20 years, 
providing them with the necessary data for informed decision 
making. Designing and conducting health system research projects 
for health practitioners, presents a course outline, in modular 
format, that deals step-by-step with the development of an HSR 
proposal and field testing (Part I) and with data analysis and 
report writing (Part II).
 
The unanticipated application of the modules in academic as well 
as health management circles led to rapid exhaustion of the 1991 
edition and the several subsequent re-prints. The different 
groups of users also made many useful suggestions for change, 
which needed elaborating. The HSR Unit in AFRO, with agreement 
from IDRC therefore decided to organise a revision of the HSR 
modules. An interdisciplinary group of Southern African re-
searchers carried out the revisions in two work-shops in 1998 
and 1999, and two of the three original editors finalised the 
present version. IDRC kept the end responsibility for the publi-
cation, which was financed by AFRO and IDRC and published by 
KIT.