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Public health research has always been dominated by the cross-sectional population survey as the most frequently used technique, and it frames much thinking about how social and behavioral research is conducted on public health issues (Kavanagh et al., 2002). It has become the dominant and default research methodology. Nevertheless, in recent years there has been a growing interest in developing new research techniques to investigate public health in the humanities, social science, and even in clinical research in medicine. One area of growing interest lies in qualitative methodology.
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Dowsett, G.W. (2007). Researching Gay Men’s Health: The Promise of Qualitative Methodology. In: Meyer, I.H., Northridge, M.E. (eds) The Health of Sexual Minorities. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-31334-4_16
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