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Action research for health and social care — a guide to practice
Author(s)	Elizabeth Hart, Meg Bond
Publisher	Open University, Buckingham, 1995
Pages	244 pp
Source	Open University Press, Celtic Court, 22 Ballmoor, Buckingham MK18 1XW.
Keywords	Health services ; Social work ; Sociology, Social Science ; Research ; Methodology ; Case studies.
Annotation	Action research is a method of enquiry, intervention and evaluation which can help practitioners, researchers and managers to make sense of problems in service delivery, and in promoting initiatives for change and improvement. The case studies presented cover large and small-scale projects in health and social care in which the authors have been involved: standards of care, and a staff development programme in a district general hospital; working with older people in the community; project groups for service provision for people with disabilities; and changing medication practices in a home for older people. The authors aim to demonstrate how their roles as researchers and agents for change shift and develop over the life of a particular project, and how important it is in action research to pay attention to process while not ignoring outcome.
Accession Number	CPA-961217202 B
Classmark	L: IG: S: 3A: 3D: 69P
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