Bosi Maria Lúcia Magalhães
Laboratório de Avaliação e Pesquisa Qualitativa em Saúde, Departamento de Saúde Comunitária, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE.
Cien Saude Colet. 2012 Mar;17(3):575-86. doi: 10.1590/s1413-81232012000300002.
This article provides an overview of the nuclear themes in the debate about the qualitative health research approach in the Brazilian scientific context and more specifically in the public health field. The author begins by defining some central concepts in the analysis conducted. Then, combining the literature on the subject with her academic praxis, she examines the current status of this research tradition, highlighting an extensive set of challenges. The discussion focuses on each challenge, moving between the different epistemic, ethical and operational planes in relation to the scientific status of this approach to public health. Considering various questions and based on empirical examples, analysis shows that, despite the expansion observed in qualitative research and its contributions to public health, this approach still faces many challenges before consolidating its status. The situation demands investments in dialogue with the other approaches which form the core area. Despite these challenges, the paper concludes by pointing to the possibility of new pacts in the public health field in order to incorporate innovations to address the diversity and complexity of this field.
本文概述了巴西科学背景下，特别是公共卫生领域中关于定性健康研究方法辩论的核心主题。作者首先对所进行分析中的一些核心概念进行了定义。然后，将关于该主题的文献与她的学术实践相结合，审视了这一研究传统的现状，突出了一系列广泛的挑战。讨论聚焦于每一项挑战，在与这种公共卫生研究方法的科学地位相关的不同认知、伦理和操作层面之间展开。通过考虑各种问题并基于实证例子进行分析表明，尽管定性研究有所扩展且对公共卫生有所贡献，但这种方法在巩固其地位之前仍面临诸多挑战。这种情况需要在与构成核心领域的其他方法的对话方面进行投入。尽管存在这些挑战，但本文最后指出，公共卫生领域有可能达成新的协定，以便纳入创新举措来应对该领域的多样性和复杂性。
