Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to G Vinten.
A major threat to the validity and reliability of health and social surveys is that questions asked are regarded as threatening. This leads to the unpredictability of social desirability bias, which can skew responses in a variety of directions. The types of situations in which this may occur are outlined, together with a ten point approach that will assist in overcoming the problems.
Each Journal has its own specific requirements for authors dealing with matters such as type of papers published, instructions for their submission and their layout and content. Requirements of authors are printed on the back cover of each issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of Health. This paper explores these in more detail and updates them for 1997 and onwards.
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The spate of correspondence and publicity, following the disciplining, and subsequent settlement in his favour, at an Industrial Tribunal, of Stockport Health Authority Charge Nurse Graham Pink, suggested that the urge to blow the whistle was at almost epidemic proportions in the NHS. It might have been surmised that the only device which kept this under control was the fear of discipline and perhaps dismissal. This fear has been increased by the contracts of employment of the NHS Trusts which have outlawed acts of whistleblowing. There are similar pressures for those working in other health-related professions, and in health and safety, and environmental protection. It is important to question whether such severe strictures are in the public interest, or whether they are there to make the life of senior managers easier, or to make it possible to ensure that doctors, nurses, and other caring professionals and support staff, conform to budgetary constraints without resort to campaigning.
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