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Qualitative Methods for Health Research Judith Green

Qualitative Methods for Health Research By Judith Green

Qualitative Methods for Health Research by Judith Green

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Qualitative Methods for Health Research is a practical introduction to designing, conducting and appraising qualitative research in areas such as public health, health services research, nursing and health promotion. This book will be useful for professionals and students with little prior knowledge of social science theory.

Qualitative Methods for Health Research Summary

Qualitative Methods for Health Research by Judith Green

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Qualitative Methods for Health Research is a practical introduction to designing, conducting and appraising qualitative research in areas such as public health, health services research, nursing and health promotion.

This book will be useful for professionals and students with little prior knowledge of social science theory. The authors provide a clear guide for the reader who would like to know more about how to apply their skills to the field of health.

Using examples from health research projects in a wide range of settings, it introduces readers to the key debates in qualitative methodology, issues in designing ethical and feasible projects, the main methods of collecting and analyzing qualitative data, and ways of reading and writing qualitative research.

Key features include:

- case studies

- chapter summaries

- highlighted key points

A basic understanding of methodological principles is as important in applied as in academic work. Health professionals and students alike will learn a great deal about applying methods from this textbook.

About Judith Green

Judith Green has degrees in anthropology and sociology, and a PhD in the sociology of heath. She has taught research methods to a wide range of students over the last 30 years, including undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students and health professionals from nursing, medicine, public health and sociology. She is currently Professor of Sociology of Health at King's College London, and has held posts at the London School of Hygiene and Medicine and London South Bank University. Judith has broad substantive interests in the sociology of health and health services, and has researched and published on primary care, professional identity, accidental injury, public understanding of risk and the relationships between transport and wellbeing. She is currently co-editor of the journal Critical Public Health. Other publications include Risk and Misfortune: the social construction of accidents (1997, UCL Press); Critical Perspectives in Public Health, co-edited with Ronald Labonte (2008, Routledge) and Analysing Health Policy: a sociological approach (1998, Longman), also co-authored with Nicki Thorogood. Nicki Thorogood's first degree was in sociology and social anthropology, and she has a PhD in the sociology of health from the University of London. She has over 30 years experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. Before coming to LSHTM (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) in 1999 she held posts at Middlesex University and at Guy's King's and Thomas's School of Medicine and Dentistry (GKT). Her research interests are primarily in qualitative research into aspects of 'identity', e.g. ethnicity, gender, disability and sexuality and in the sociology of the body. She is also interested in the intersection of mental health with public health and health promotion. She supervises several research degree students. She is Series Editor, with Rosalind Plowman, of the Understanding Public Health series of textbooks published by Open University Press.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: PRINCIPLES AND APPROACHES IN QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH Qualitative Methodology and Health Research Developing Qualitative Research Designs Responsibilities, Ethics and Values PART TWO: GENERATING AND ANALYZING DATA In-Depth Interviews Group Interviews Observational Methods Using Documentary Sources Analyzing Qualitative Data PART THREE: DOING QUALITATIVE WORK FOR HEALTH Collaborating across Disciplines and Institutions Writing Up Qualitative Work Reading and Appraising Qualitative Work

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GOR007840594
9780761947714
076194771X
Qualitative Methods for Health Research by Judith Green
Judith Green
Introducing Qualitative Methods Series
Used - Like New
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
2004-04-15
280
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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