HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sample Size Determination, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Eclecticism
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Study what we did go over and the things that we"re covering in this lecture. Investigating health: paradigm = worldview with methodological, epistemological understandings, exists on a continuum between positivism and interpretivism (social constructivism, positivism = hard sciences. Aligned with quantitative methodology: interpretivism aligned with qualitative methodology. Postivism: research should be objective and bias-free, only possible through rigorous systematic quantitative scientific methods, one single reality, successful replication of studies adds supporting evidence to the findings. Interpretivism: the other side of the spectrum o: created as a critique to positivism, ses, gender, gender identity, time/history period, religion etc. all affects our reality the social world, research is equally subjective. Qualitative research o: inductive begin with your one individual experience and then work up into a broader theory. Three broad trends discussed o: don"t have to know the exact dates of the events, just know the order for the exam, know the names for the exam (i. e. tommy douglas, regular doctors:
