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Critical Education for Participatory Research

Author(s) -

Martin M.

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

sociological research online

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.593

H-Index - 49

ISSN - 1360-7804

DOI - 10.5153/sro.45

Subject(s) - inequality , health care , citizen journalism , health professionals , health education , power (physics) , public relations , sociology , participatory action research , primary health care , nursing , psychology , public health , political science , medicine , mathematics , anthropology , law , mathematical analysis , physics , quantum mechanics

This article takes the form of a case study of a master's course for health anddevelopment professionals working in the field of primary health care. It arguesthe need for health professionals to critically examine research paradigms andthe assumptions that inform them, considering their appropriateness to primaryhealth care, a health strategy based on a recognition of the relationshipbetween inequalities and health status. Conventional training of healthprofessionals does not encourage health workers to reflect critically on theirresearch practice. This can be facilitated through an educational strategy thatemphasises issues of inequality as central to health and addresses issues ofpower and purpose in research activity.

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