"Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research" is a practical guide to applying interpretive qualitative methods to pressing health services delivery problems. A leading medical anthropologist who has also spent many years working in applied healthcare settings, Sobo combines sophisticated theore[...]

This book represents a major contribution to the development and increasingly accepted importance of involving service users in research. It argues that this development is neither a fad nor a cure-all, and highlights the strengths, weaknesses, benefits and costs of the approach. It is the first tex[...]

This book is a critical examination of certain basic issues and themes crucial to understanding how ethics currently interfaces with health care and biomedical research. Beginning with an overview of the field, it proceeds through a delineation of such key notions as trust and uncertainty, dialogue [...]

Seksten forskere beskriver forskellige folkesundhedsvidenskabelige forskningsmetoder, der spænder fra interviews, diskursanalyse og antropologisk feltarbejde til statistiske metoder, spørgeskemaundersøgelser og registerstudier.

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This book examines organizational health intervention research. It provides insights into current approaches to intervention research in the field, and shows future directions and developments for health-oriented change in organizations.[...]