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This book helps you get to grips with qualitative research theory and methods, empowering you to consume and conduct healthcare research.
List of contents
Part 1. Principles and Approaches in Qualitative Health Research
1. Qualitative Methodology in Health
2. The Role of Theory
3. Developing Research Proposals
4. Responsibilities, Ethics and Values
Part 2. Generating Data
5. Interviews
6. Group Interviews and Discussions
7. Ethnographic and Observational Methods
8. Using Secondary Sources
Part 3. Managing and Analysing Data
9. Beginning Data Analysis
10. Developing Qualitative Analysis
Part 4. Qualitative Research in Practice
11. Integrating Methods and Disciplines
12. Reading, Appraising and Reviewing
13. Synthesizing Qualitative Evidence
14. Knowledge Exchange and Dissemination
About the author
Judith Green has degrees in anthropology and sociology, and a PhD in the sociology of health. 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 at the University of Exeter, and Honorary Professor, in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. She has held posts at the King's College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical 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 well-being. She is currently co-editor of the Journal of Critical Public Health. Other publications include Risk and misfortune: The social construction of accidents (1997, Taylor & Francis); Critical perspectives in public health, co-edited with Ronald Labonté (2008, Routledge) and Analysing health policy: A sociological approach (1998, Longman), also co-authored with Nicki Thorogood.
