HLTHAGE 1AA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Participant Observation, Social Choice Theory, Rheumatism
11 Dec 2017
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What methods of research are used in health studies: quantitative: (statistics - number crunching, health records and statistics, census data, surveys (questionnaires, qualitative: (soft methods) Interviews: focus groups, participant observation, document analysis (journals, letters etc) Efficiency/cost effectiveness: variables we might consider when making decisions. John stuart mills response (cid:498)to prevent harm to others(cid:499) Three important contemporary approaches in the social sciences. Security/social capital: the positivist approach/the structural functionalist approach, the critical approach/conflict theorists, the interpretive approach/symbolic interactionist perspective, grounded. Qualitative methods: a more microscopic look at (cid:498)human agency(cid:499) Kleinman"s figure three discussion: popular sector, professional sector, and folk. Social construction of reality: health care systems are socially and culturally connected, universal healthcare is part of our social reality as canadians. It becomes our social reality on two levels: the external interpersonal environment we are situated in (norms, communication with others, our own internal intra psychic space.
