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Public health research methods for the 21st century
Designed to meet the needs of public health students, practitioners, and researchers, this exciting and contemporary new text from the author of Qualitative Methods in Social Work Research, Second Edition offers a firm grounding in qualitative and mixed methods, including their social science roots and public health applications. It uniquely addresses two profound changes taking place in public health in the 21st century: the explosion of interest in global public health, and the growing reliance on community-engaged research methods. The author brings public health to life through the use of real-world case studies drawn from the author's funded research projects in breast cancer screening as well as homelessness and mental illness.
Introduction
Introduction
The field of public health has never been as widely known or popular as in recent years. On a global scale, the spread of HIV/AIDS beginning in the 1980s gave public health enormous impetus and visibility. Much like infectious diseases from earlier eras, HIV/AIDS was deeply enmeshed in environmental and behavioral contexts. If left unaddressed, the disease promised to engulf large portions of the world's population.
Yet today's most enduring and pervasive public health problems are far more mundane, e.g., poor sanitation and water quality, malnutrition, and the everyday violence of grinding poverty. The 20th–century reign of the germ theory of disease etiology, with its emphasis on curing over prevention and laboratories over communities, has been tempered by these realities and by the vast increase ...
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