The goal of health services research is to acquire and disseminate relevant evidence that can advance population health, improve health services and inform health policy in governments and organizational policies in health care for this week pick up one of the following areas and discuss:

• What are the major steps in the conceptualization stage of health services research?
• What is Health Services Research? What are the overall goals of health system research? What are the functions of health research systems?
• Discuss main components of a research question (this is a general discussion and you can discuss health system research of research as a general term)
• What are the unique characteristics of medical care services compared with other market products or services?

Background:

Ten steps for conceptualizing and conducting qualitative research studies in a pragmatically curious manner

http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR16-6/chenail.pdf

Arrow and the Information Market Failure in Health Care http://www.smith.edu/econ/documents/ArrowandtheInformationMarketFailure.pdfParticipatory Research Methods: A Methodological Approach in Motion http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1801/3334