Qualitative Methods in Public Health

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Qualitative Methods in Public Health is a comprehensiveresource that presents practical strategies and methods for usingqualitative research and includes the basic logic and rationale formaking qualitative research decisions. This important bookoutlines the complexities, advantages, and limitations ofqualitative methods and offers information and step-by-stepprocedures for every phase of research¾from theory to studydesign, data collection, analysis, interpretation, writing, anddissemination. Written for faculty, students, andpractitioners in public health research, promotion, and educationQualitative Methods in Public Health will help those withprior research experience expand their repertoire to includequalitative methods. The book also contains up-to-dateillustrations from a wealth of topics such as reproductivechoice, sexual risk and protection, gender relations, and otherareas critical to understanding population, health, and disease.Qualitative Methods in Public Health includes * Examples of mixed qualitative-quantitative research design * Guidelines for discussions, sample budgets, and caveats forplanning and implementing focus groups * Sample agenda for training interviewers * A summary of needed critical appraisal skills * Tips on where to publish the results * Sample brochure to share qualitative study findings withparticipating communities * A comprehensive index

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Priscilla R. Ulin

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Gesundheits- u. Sozialwesen Health & Social Care Public Health / Ausbildung u. Verhaltensweisen Public Health Behavior & Education

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"This book helps students from the first step of developing aconceptual framework through analysis, interpretation, and write-upof data. This is a terrific book." --Margaret Bentley, professor of nutrition and associate dean forpublic health, School of Public Health, University of NorthCarolina, Chapel Hill "Will be immensely useful to all health social scientistsworking in international health as well as members oftransdisciplinary teams of researchers trying to better understandwhat qualitative research brings to the table." --Mark Nichter, professor, University of Arizona, Tucson "This book's reader-friendly tone helped my PapuaNew Guinean students and colleagues learn the language ofqualitative research and later to conduct rapid assessments of HIVand AIDS peer-education needs in their owncommunities." --Lawrence Hammar, senior research fellow, Papua New GuineaInstitute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea "The book's clear presentation and refreshingabsence of jargon makes it highly accessible to all wishing to makeeffective use of qualitative methods." --John Cleland, professor, Centre for Population Studies, LondonSchool of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine "Grounds qualitative theory in practical application andprovides illustrative perspective from the field that can be usedto promote critical thinking for nursing students." --Janice Smolowitz, assistant dean for clinical practice, ColumbiaUniversity School of Nursing, New York
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