Includes bibliographical references and index.

Origins and Development of Health Survey Methods / Timothy P Johnson -- Design and Sampling Issues. Sampling For Community Health Surveys / Michael P Battaglia -- Developing a Survey Sample Design for Population-Based Case-Control Studies / Ralph DiGaetano -- Sampling Rare Populations / James Wagner, Sunghee Lee -- Design and Measurement Issues. Assessing Physical Health / Todd Rockwood -- Developing and Selecting Mental Health Measures / Ronald C Kessler, Beth-Ellen Pennell -- Developing Measures of Health Behavior and Health Service Utilization / Paul Beatty -- Self-Rated Health in Health Surveys / Sunghee Lee -- Pretesting of Health Survey Questionnaires: Cognitive Interviewing, Usability Testing, and Behavior Coding / Gordon Willis -- Cross-Cultural Considerations in Health Surveys / Brad Edwards -- Survey Methods for Social Network Research / Benjamin Cornwell, Emily Hoagland -- New Technologies for Health Survey Research / Joe Murphy, Elizabeth Dean, Craig A Hill, Ashley Richards -- Field Issues. Using Survey Data to Improve Health: Community Outreach and Collaboration / Steven Whitman, Ami M Shah, Maureen R Benjamins, Joseph West -- Proxy Reporting in Health Surveys / Joseph W Sakshaug -- The Collection of Biospecimens in Health Surveys / Joseph W Sakshaug, Mary Beth Ofstedal, Heidi Guyer, Timothy J Beebe -- Collecting Contextual Health Survey Data Using Systematic Observation / Shannon N Zenk, Sandy Slater, Safa Rashid -- Collecting Survey Data on Sensitive Topics: Substance Use / Joe Gfroerer, Joel Kennet -- Collecting Survey Data on Sensitive Topics: Sexual Behavior / Tom W Smith -- Ethical Considerations in Collecting Health Survey Data / Emily E Anderson -- Health Surveys of Special Populations. Surveys of Physicians / Jonathan B VanGeest, Timothy J Beebe, Timothy P Johnson -- Surveys of Health Care Organizations / John D Loft, Joe Murphy, Craig A Hill -- Surveys of Patient Populations / Francis Fullam, Jonathan B VanGeest -- Surveying Sexual and Gender Minorities / Melissa A Clark, Samantha Rosenthal, Ulrike Boehmer -- Surveying People with Disabilities: Moving Toward Better Practices and Policies / Rooshey Hasnain, Carmit-Noa Shpigelman, Mike Scott, Jon R Gunderson, Hadi B Rangin, Ashmeet Oberoi, Liam McKeever -- Data Management and Analysis. Assessing the Quality of Health Survey Data Through Modern Test Theory / Adam C Carle -- Sample Weighting for Health Surveys / Kennon R Copeland, Nadarajasundaram Ganesh -- Merging Survey Data with Administrative Data for Health Research Purposes / Michael Davern, Marc Roemer, Wendy Thomas -- Merging Survey Data with Aggregate Data from Other Sources: Opportunities and Challenges / Jarvis T Chen -- Analysis of Complex Health Survey Data / Stanislav Kolenikov, Jeff Pitblado.

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