Qualitative Methods in Public Health
A Field Guide for Applied Research
Elizabeth E. Tolley, Priscilla R. Ulin, Natasha Mack, Elizabeth T. Robinson, Stacey M. Succop
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Qualitative Methods in Public Health
A Field Guide for Applied Research
Elizabeth E. Tolley, Priscilla R. Ulin, Natasha Mack, Elizabeth T. Robinson, Stacey M. Succop
Ă propos de ce livre
Qualitative Methods in Public Health: A Field Guide for Applied Research, 2nd Edition provides a practical orientation to conducting effective qualitative research in the public health sphere. With thorough examination and simple explanations, this book guides you through the logic and workflow of qualitative approaches, with step-by-step guidance on every phase of the research. Students learn how to identify and make use of theoretical frameworks to guide your study, design the study to answer specific questions, and achieve their research goals.
Data collection, analysis, and interpretation are given close attention as the backbone of a successful study, and expert insight on reporting and dissemination helps you get your work noticed. This second edition features new examples from global health, including case studies specifically illustrating study design, web and mobile technologies, mixed methods, and new innovations in information dissemination. Pedagogical tools have been added to help enhance your understanding of research design and implementation, and extensive appendices show you how these concepts work in practice.
Qualitative research is a powerful tool for public health, but it's very easy to get it wrong. Careful study design and data management are critical, and it's important to resist drawing conclusions that the data cannot support. This book shows you how to conduct high-quality qualitative research that stands up to review.
Foire aux questions
Informations
Chapter 1
Invitation to Explore
Objectives:
- To introduce researchers to qualitative methods in public health research, including those whose training and experience may be predominantly in quantitative methods
- To describe the basic characteristics of a qualitative research approach
- To show how qualitative methods can shed new light on complex questions in public health
- To highlight the aspects of qualitative research methodology presented in this book, including content new to this second edition
Our Purpose
What Is Qualitative Research?
Box 1.1: Characteristics of Qualitative Research
- Explores and discovers
- Seeks depth of understanding
- Views social phenomena holistically
- Provides insight into the meanings of decisions and actions
- Asks why, how, and under what circumstance things occur
- Uses interpretive and other open-ended methods
- Is iterative rather than fixed
- Is emergent rather than prestructured
- Involves respondents as active participants rather than as subjects
- Defines the investigator as an instrument in the research process
- Qualitative research is systematic discovery. Its purpose is to generate knowledge of social events and processes by understanding what they mean to people, exploring and documenting how people interact with each other and how they interpret and interact with the world around them. It also seeks to elucidate patterns of shared understanding and variability in those patterns.
- Qualitative researchers value natural settings where the researcher can better understand people's lived experiences. The natural context of people's lives is a critical component of qualitative design because it influences the perspectives, experiences, and actions of participants in the study. It is the interpersonal and sociocultural fabric that shapes meanings and actions. Many problems central to public health research and practice are deeply embedded in their cultural contexts. People in communities confront decisions and challenges that are conditioned by membership in multiple social groups: whether to vaccinate children, how to prevent obesity, where to go for help in times of illness, and how to give young people the skills and confidence they will need for healthy adulthood. Contradictions and competing priorities can make many seemingly commonplace decisions difficult: Spend money on prescription drugs, or save for retirement? Protect...