Qualitative Methods and Health Policy Research

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Murphy Klappentext This volume explains what qualitative research can do! when it is sensible to use or commission it! and (most crucially and controversially) how to tell good work from bad. The text is amply illustrated with examples of qualitative health care research studies. Zusammenfassung Qualitative researchers have traditionally been cautious about claiming that their work was scientific Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The Contribution of Qualitative Research; 1: Qualitative Research and Policy Science; 2: Three Myths about Qualitative Research; 3: So What Is Different about Qualitative Research?; 2: The Practice of Qualitative Research; 4: Observation, Interaction Analysis, and Documents; 5: Interviews in Qualitative Research; 6: Selection and Sampling in Qualitative Research; 7: The Analysis of Qualitative Data; 8: The Ethics of Qualitative Research; 3: Evaluating Qualitative Research; 9: Judging the Quality of Qualitative Research

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• Authors: Professor Robert Dingwall, Robert Dingwall, Elizabeth Murphy, Elizabeth Dingwall Murphy, Michael P. O'Donnell
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2003
• EAN: 9780202307107
• ISBN: 978-0-202-30710-7
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Social problems & social issues; Social Problems and Social Iss; Social Problems & Social Issues
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Medical research, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, MEDICAL / Research, Public health & preventive medicine, Public health and preventive medicine