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Health Social Science and Participatory Research: Challenging Traditional Thought and Practice

Jesusa M. Marco

Discipline: Social Science, Health

 

Abstract:

Health social science is a new field of study that seeks to provide an alternative perspective to established models and analyses that the health/medical and social sciences have separately used in examining health social problems and issues today. Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, health social science advocates a transdisciplinary approach in the conceptualization collection and analysis of knowledge

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Participatory research, a methodology that emphasizes process, is seen to complement the interactive nature of health social science. This paper presents the empowering characteristic participatory research can provide in understanding the socio-cultural dimension of reproductive tract infections (RTIs) and in breakingthrough the silence women in particular have suffered in their experiences of RTIs.