Challenge & Innovation

Challenge & Innovation

by Mary Boulton
Released July 2013
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781135342371

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Book description

First published in 1994. This volume arises largely out of a meeting with the same title as part of efforts to disseminate the work of its AIDS Initiative. The meeting brought together over forty British, European and American researchers in the social and behavioural sciences, as well as those involved in policy, planning and evaluation, to discuss methodological aspects of social research in relation to HIV/AIDS. Of relevance to those seeking insight into the contribution that social research can make to the epidemic, this book is essential reading for all concerned with the social dimensions of health.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. List of Acronyms
  9. Series Editor’s
  10. Preface
  11. Chapter 1 The Methodological Imagination
  12. Research Design, Theoretical Frameworks and the Research Question
    1. Chapter 2 Using Longitudinal Cohort-Sequential Designs to Study Changes in Sexual Behaviour
    2. Chapter 3 Monitoring Behavioural Change in the Population: A Continuous Data Collection Approach
    3. Chapter 4 Acts, Sessions and Individuals: A Model for Analysing Sexual Behaviour
    4. Chapter 5 Analysing Naturally-Occurring Data on AIDS Counselling: Some Methodological and Practical Issues
  13. Samples and Populations
    1. Chapter 6 Some Methodological and Practical Implications of Employing Drug Users as Indigenous Fieldworkers
    2. Chapter 7 How Many Prostitutes? Epidemiology out of Ethnography
  14. Methods of Data Collection
    1. Chapter 8 Diaries and Sexual Behaviour: The Use of Sexual Diaries as Method and Substance in Researching Gay Men’s Response to HIV/AIDS
    2. Chapter 9 Social Science Methods Used in a Study of Prostitutes in the Gambia
    3. Chapter 10 Focus Groups: Methods or Madness?
  15. Evaluating Health Education Interventions
    1. Chapter 11 Theory, Utility and Stakeholders: Methodological Issues in Evaluating a Community Project on HIV/AIDS
    2. Chapter 12 Assessing AIDS Preventive Strategies in Europe
  16. A Feminist Approach to Social Research on HIV/AIDS
    1. Chapter 13 Methodological Issues in Researching Young Women’s Sexuality
  17. Looking Forward
    1. Chapter 14 Towards the Mainstreaming of HIV Research
  18. Notes on Contributors
  19. Index

Product information

  • Title: Challenge & Innovation
  • Author(s): Mary Boulton
  • Release date: July 2013
  • Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 9781135342371