Qualitative Research and the World Health Organization

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The paper discusses how the World Health Organization makes use of qualitative as well as quantitative research to address problems such as malaria containment and the health and psychological consequences of the tsunami in East Asia. The paper points out the different approaches to conducting qualitative research that were employed in the malaria and tsunami studies.

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"Interviewers are trained "to assess the specific control interventions planned" for different countries in the area of malaria containment ("Training workshop on Methods for Evaluation of Pilot Intervention Studies of the Malaria Control for Ethnic Minorities in the Greater Mekong Subregion Project," 2006, WHO). Persons in the field are also trained so WHO can deploy both "qualitative and quantitative methods" and a drive to recruit local interviewers is crucial because currently access to such anecdotal data is limited, "especially in qualitative methods"."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Maxwell, Joesph. (2005). Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach. SecondEdition. London: Sage Publishing.
• "Mental Health Task Force in Disaster: Qualitative Assessment of Psychosocial IssuesFollowing the Tsunami." (1 Feb 2005). WHO: World Health Organization. Retrieved 2 Feb 2007 atHttp://www.who.int/hac/events/tsunamiconf/presentations/2_14_non_governmental_actors_canagarathnam_doc.pdf
• "Training workshop on Methods for Evaluation of Pilot Intervention Studies of theMalaria Control for Ethnic Minorities in the Greater Mekong Subregion Project." (2006). WHO: World Health Organization. Retrieved 2 Feb 2007 at http://www.wpro.who.int/sites/mvp/meetings/Training+workshop+for+qualitative+and+quantitative+data+collection.htm

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